Carrapateira-T, Unit B, Faro (Jurassic of Portugal)

Where: Portugal (37.2° N, 8.9° W: paleocoordinates 31.5° N, 0.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• 30 m of marly limestones

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 68248: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.01.2007

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Taxonomic list

Cyanophyceae
  -
Cayeuxia sp. Frollo 1938
Demospongiae
 Plakinida - Plakinidae
  - Burgundiidae
Burgundia trinorchii Dehorne 1916 demosponge
Foraminifera
 Loftusiacea - Cyclamminidae
 Loftusiacea - Hottingeritidae