Where: Portugal (39.3° N, 9.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 1.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pteroceriano Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)
• ? Upper Kimmeridgian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: paralic; lithified siltstone and lithified claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: F. T. Fürsich and W. Werner. 1985. New species of brackish water Bivalvia from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte (7)438-448 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 77741: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Protocardia (Protocardia) peraltaensis n. sp. cockle |