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)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified lime mudstone and lithified, calcareous 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 68237: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.01.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Echinoidea | |
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Pseudocidaris sp. sea urchin | |
| Sedentaria | |
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Serpula (Dorsoserpula) sp. Linnaeus 1758 | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834 moon snail | |
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Harpagodes sp. Gill 1870 snail | |
"Actaeonina morini" = Acteonina
"Actaeonina morini" = Acteonina snail | |
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| Bivalvia | |
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Heterodonta indet. Neumayr 1884 clam | |
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Coelastarte discus clam | |
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? Isocyprina sp. Röder 1882 clam | |
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? Grammatodon sp. Meek and Hayden 1860 clam | |
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Cucullaea cf. ceres clam | |
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Isognomon lusitanicum oyster | |
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana, Praeexogyra pustulosa
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
Praeexogyra pustulosa oyster | |
"Camptonectes (Camptonectes) cf. lens" = Camptonectes lens, Spondylus sp.
"Camptonectes (Camptonectes) cf. lens" = Camptonectes lens Sowerby 1818 scallop
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop | |
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Placunopsis suprajurensis scallop | |
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Arcomytilus morrisi mussel
Modiolus subreniformis mussel | |