Where: Spain (38.1° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 29.3° N, 6.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Miravetes Formation, Valanginian (139.8 - 132.9 Ma)
• Th. pertransiens ammonite subzone, P. fenestrata nannofossil subzones, Calpionellites calpionellid zone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified limestone and lithified marl
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 65332: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Neolissoceras grasianum" = Haploceras grasianum
"Neolissoceras grasianum" = Haploceras grasianum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite | |
Olcostephanus drumensis ammonite | |
Thurmanniceras pertransiens Sayn 1907 ammonite | |
Coccolithophyceae | |
Speetonia colligata Black 1971 | |
Tubodiscus jurapelagicus Worsley 1971
Tubodiscus verenae Thierstein 1973 | |
Polyhymenophora | |
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Protozoa | |
Lorenziella hungarica, Calpionellites darderi, Calpionellites caravacaensis, Praecalpionellites murgeanui
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