Portugal E7/50 (Jurassic of Portugal)

Where: Portugal (39.1° N, 9.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 0.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sobral Formation, Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; poorly lithified, fine-grained, shelly/skeletal, silty, sandy marl and siltstone

• fine-sandy, silty marl with shell debris. fragmentation ca.80%, lignite fragments, fauna partly scattered, parly arranged in thin shell beds

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with calcite, shellbed

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: F. T. Fürsich. 1999. Unpublished data. [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8335: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Elmar Link on 07.07.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Dorsoserpula sp. Parsch 1956
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon concinnus Phillips 1829 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864 scallop
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria pygmaea pearl oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Modiolus imbricatus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus Sowerby 1818 mussel
Arcomytilus morrisi mussel
small
 Heteroconchia -
Heterodonta indet. Neumayr 1884 clam
 Myoida -
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Isocyprina sp. Röder 1882 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia intexta Muenster 1837 cockle
 Carditida - Astartidae
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda "sp. B" Cuvier 1795 snail
sp. B
Gastropoda "sp. A" Cuvier 1795 snail
sp. A
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Cerithiidae "sp. B" Fleming 1822 cerith snail
sp. B
Cerithiidae "sp. A" Fleming 1822 cerith snail
sp. A