Sierra de Montsech, Clot d'Olsi-Alsamora section, units 72-81, Pyrenees (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Cataluña, Spain (42.0° N, 0.8° E: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 0.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Arén Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified sandstone

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 74607: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.08.2007

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Hippuritella lapeirousei Goldfuss 1840 rudist
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
 Hippuritida - Requieniidae