Consolacao, Peniche area, Jurassicorbula 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)

• 2 beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified siltstone

• brackish lagoons
• green to black fine sandy siltstones

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 67954: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.12.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Cyprideidae
cf. Cypridea sp. Bosquet 1852 ostracod
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteroperna sp. Lycett 1850 pearl oyster
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus sp. Linnaeus 1758 mussel
 Cardiida - Neomiodontidae
Eomiodon sp. Cox 1935 clam
sp. A
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Myoida -