Sierra de Montsech, Clot d'Olsi-Alsamora section, units 11-12, Pyrenees (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Spain (42.0° N, 0.8° E: paleocoordinates 31.0° N, 3.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sant Corneli Formation, Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified packstone and lithified grainstone

• isolated and fragmented specimens

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: O. Pascual, J. M. Pons, and E. Vicens. 1989. Rudist horizons in the Montsec (South Central Pyrenees). in J. Wiedmann, ed., Cretaceous of the Western Tethys 215-230 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74583: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.08.2007

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