Section Y.CL2 - Bed 6, 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: Miravetes Formation, Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• T. alpillensis ammonite subzone, A. infracretacea - P. fenestrata nannofossil subzones, Calpionellopsis calpionellid zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified limestone and lithified marl

• rhythmic alternation of marly limestone beds and marly interbeds

Size classes: macrofossils, 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 65314: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

Coccolithophyceae
 Podorhabdales - Tubodiscaceae
 Eiffellithales - Rhagodiscaceae
Protozoa
 Calpionellida -
Polyhymenophora
 Spirotrichia -
Tintinnopsella carpathica
listed as Tintinopsella
Tintinnopsella longa
listed as Tintinopsella
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Tirnovella alpillensis Mazenot 1939 ammonite
Fauriella boissieri Pictet 1867 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
 Ammonitida - Haploceratidae
"Neolissoceras grasianum" = Haploceras grasianum
"Neolissoceras grasianum" = Haploceras grasianum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
Negreliceras sp. Djanelidze 1922 ammonite
Spiticeras aff. multiforme Djanelidze 1922 ammonite
Kilianiceras sp. Djanelidze 1922 ammonite