Villarroya de los Pinares: Late/Upper Aptian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Mesomorpha cf. mammillata (Reuss 1854)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Thalamocaeniopsis ouenzensis Alloiteau 1953
synonym of Thalamocaeniopsis stricta
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Eugyridae
Eohydnophora tenuis (Toula 1878)
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain
Coordinates: 40.5° North, 0.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.3° North, 8.3° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 2-3
Key time interval:Late/Upper Aptian Ammonoid zone: Epicheloniceras martini
Age range of interval:119.50000 - 113.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Benassal
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: early Late Aptian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified marl
Secondary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:offshore ramp
Geology comments: slope within the photic zone but below the storm wave-base
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:132379
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-08-15 19:58:51 Last modified:2012-08-15 04:58:51
Access level:the public Released:2012-08-15 19:58:51
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
42623. T. Bover-Arnal, H. Löser, J. A. Moreno-Bedmar, R. Salas, and A. Strasser. 2012. Corals on the slope (Aptian, Maestrat Basin, Spain). Cretaceous Research 37:43-64 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]