Consolacao, Peniche area, Mesosaccella-Protocardia assemblage (Jurassic of Portugal)

Where: Portugal (39.3° N, 9.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 1.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: prodelta; lithified siltstone

• low energy prodelta

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 67944: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.12.2006

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Taxonomic list

Nodosariata
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804
Foraminifera
 Loftusiacea - Cyclamminidae
 Loftusiacea - Hottingeritidae
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
 Arcida - Arcidae
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Inoperna perplicata Etallon 1863 mussel
Arcomytilus sp. Agassiz 1843 mussel
 Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia incerta Thurmann 1836 clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbulomima sp. Vokes 1945 clam
sp. G
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam
sp. D
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Isocyprina sp. Röder 1882 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia sp. Beyrich 1845 cockle
sp. P
Protocardia intexta Muenster 1837 cockle
 Carditida - Astartidae
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Mesosaccella dammariensis pointed nut clam