Igualada, Ebro Basin, La Tossa Formation, marls, Catalonia (Eocene of Spain)

Where: Spain (41.6° N, 1.7° E: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 1.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: La Tossa Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Álvarez-Pérez. 1997. New Eocene coral species from Igualada (Barcelona, NE of Spain). Boletin de la Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural, Seccion Geologica 91:297-304 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69639: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.03.2007

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Desmophyllum castellolense n. sp. Álvarez-Pérez 1997 stony coral