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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Apricardia sicoris rudist | |
Praeradiolites boucheroni rudist
Radiolitella pulchellus rudist
Lapeirousia "sp. 2" Bayle 1878 rudist | |
Hippuritella lapeirousei Goldfuss 1840 rudist |