Praia da Areia Branca, Lisboa (Jurassic of Portugal)

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

• brackish water

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

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae