Santa Cruz Cliff, Eomiodon association, Lisboa (Jurassic of Portugal)
Where: Portugal (39.1° N, 9.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 1.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)
• 5 beds
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: delta front; lithified sandstone
• fine- to medium-grained sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: F. T. Fürsich. 1981. Salinity-controlled benthic associations from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal. Lethaia 14:203-223 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 68235: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.01.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda | |
Cerithiidae indet. Fleming 1822 cerith snail | |
Neritoma sp. Morris 1949 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Isognomon lusitanicum oyster | |
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana, Praeexogyra sp.
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
Praeexogyra sp. Charles 1952 oyster | |
Placunopsis suprajurensis scallop |