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

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Cerithiidae indet. Fleming 1822 cerith snail
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
Neritoma sp. Morris 1949 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Neomiodontidae
 Ostreida - Malleidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
Praeexogyra sp. Charles 1952 oyster
 Pectinida - Anomiidae