Serra del Rei, PO-18, Peniche area (Jurassic to of Portugal)

Where: Portugal (39.3° N, 9.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 1.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Oxfordian to Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 152.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• micritic limestone with marly intercalations

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: G. Termier, H. Termier, and M. Ramalho. 1985. Spongiofaunes du Jurassique Superieur du Portugal. Comunicacoes dos Servicos Geologicos de Portugal 71(2):197-222 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68243: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.01.2007

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Taxonomic list

Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Marinella lugeoni Pfender 1939
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales -
Terquemella sp. Morellet and Morellet 1913
Foraminifera
 Loftusiacea - Hottingeritidae
 Loftusiacea - Cyclamminidae
Cyanophyceae
  -
Cayeuxia sp. Frollo 1938
Demospongiae
 Axinellida - Cladocoropsidae
Cladocoropsis mirabilis Felix 1907 demosponge
 Axinellida - Neuroporidae
Calcarea
 Calcaronea - Endostomatidae
Corynella cf. quenstedti Zittel 1880 calcareous sponge