Consolacao, Peniche area, Nerinea assemblage (Jurassic of Portugal)

Where: Portugal (39.3° N, 9.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 1.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)

• 44m, 61m, 94m, 118m, 175m

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified marl and lithified sandstone

• silty-sandy marls or marly limestones; silty-marly sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. Werner. 1986. Palökologische und biofazielle Analyse des Kimmeridge (Oberjura) von Consolacao, Mittelportugal [Paleoecological and biofacies analysis of the Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) of Consolacao, central Portugal]. Zitteliana 13:3-109 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67941: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.12.2006

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
 Murchisoniina - Zygopleuridae
 Sorbeoconcha - Procerithiidae
Procerithium sp. Cossmann 1902 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
 Heterostropha - Nerineidae
Nerinea sp. Deshayes 1827 snail
sp. B
 Heterostrophia -
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteroperna sp. Lycett 1850 pearl oyster
sp. M
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Bakevelliidae indet. King 1850 oyster
sp. A and AB
 Cardiida - Neomiodontidae
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Placophylliidae
Placophyllia cf. minima Geyer 1955 stony coral