Sierra de Montsech, Clot d'Olsi-Alsamora section, unit 63, Pyrenees (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Spain (42.0° N, 0.8° E: paleocoordinates 31.8° N, 3.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Vallcarga Formation, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, coarse-grained grainstone

• isolated rudists and small clusters

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 74603: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.08.2007

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Hippurites lamarcki rudist
subsp. quintanalomensis
Vaccinites archiaci Munier-Chalmas 1892 rudist
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Praeradiolites sinuatus rudist
Praeradiolites sinuatus-hoeninghausi