Section Y.CL2 - Bed 4, Canada Luenga, Cehegin, Murcia (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Spain (38.1° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 29.7° N, 6.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tollo Formation, Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• A. infracretacea nannofossil subzone, Calpionellopsis calpionellid zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified limestone

• pelagic swell facies
• nodular limestones

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: R. Aguado, M. Company, and J. M. Tavera. 2000. The Berriasian/Valanginian boundary in the Mediterranean region: new data from the Caravaca and Cehegin sections, SE Spain. Cretaceous Research 21:1-21 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 65312: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Protozoa
 Calpionellida -
Calpionella aff. alpina, Lorenziella hungarica, Calpionellopsis simplex, Calpionellopsis oblonga
Polyhymenophora
 Spirotrichia -
Tintinnopsella carpathica, Tintinnopsella longa
Tintinnopsella carpathica
listed as Tintinopsella
Tintinnopsella longa
listed as Tintinopsella
Coccolithophyceae
 Braarudosphaerales - Polycyclolithaceae
Rucinolithus wisei
Rucinolithus wisei Thierstein 1971
 Eiffellithales - Rhagodiscaceae
Calcicalathina praeoblongata, Percivalia nebulosa
 Podorhabdales - Tubodiscaceae
Tubodiscus jurapelagicus