Where: Spain (42.3° N, 0.7° W: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 2.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• late Ypresian: chrons C23r through C22n and NP zones 12 and 13
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified mudstone and poorly lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk
Primary reference: S. Dominici and T. Kowalke. 2007. Depositional dynamics and the record of ecosystem stability: early Eocene faunal gradients in the Pyrenean foreland, Spain. Palaios 22(3):268-284 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 75390: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 08.10.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Anthozoa | |
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Gastropoda | |
Turritella peraubensis turret shell
Zaria caroli turret shell
Sigmesalia fasciata Lamarck 1804 turret shell | |
"Benoistea bofilli" = Benoistia
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Turridae indet. Swainson 1840 turrid | |
Volutidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 volute | |
Scaphopoda | |
Antalis sp. Adams and Adams 1854 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Crassatellidae indet. FĂ©russac 1822 clam | |
Venericardia minuta Leymerie 1846 clam | |
"Varicorbula sp." = Corbula (Varicorbula), Bicorbula sp.
"Varicorbula sp." = Corbula (Varicorbula) Grant and Gale 1931 clam
Bicorbula sp. Fischer 1887 clam | |
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"Ostrea multicostata" = Cubitostrea multicostata
"Ostrea multicostata" = Cubitostrea multicostata Deshayes 1832 oyster | |
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam |