Consolacao, Peniche area, ?Neomiodon assemblage (Jurassic of Portugal)

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• 5 beds between 170 and 200 m

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified siltstone

• brackish lagoons
• marly siltstone

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 67952: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.12.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteroperna sp. Lycett 1850 pearl oyster
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Lycettia sp. Cox 1937 mussel
sp. A
 Unionida - Unionidae
Unio danischi freshwater mussel
 Carditida - Astartidae
Nicaniella (Trautscholdia) sp. Cox and Arkell 1948 clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Caestocorbula sp. Vincent 1910 clam
sp. A
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam
sp. D
 Cardiida - Neomiodontidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia sp. Beyrich 1845 cockle
sp. B
 Cardiida - Sowerbyidae
 Heteroconchia -
Heterodonta indet. Neumayr 1884 clam
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
sp. B
 Heterostropha - Valvatidae
Amplovalvata sp. Yen 1952 snail
sp. L and sp.
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
cf. Ampullina sp. Férussac 1822 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Procerithiidae
 Opisthobranchia -
Ceritella sp. Morris and Lycett 1851 snail
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Cyprididae
 Podocopida - Limnocytheridae
Foraminifera
 Loftusiacea - Cyclamminidae