Cabo Mayor 9: Maastrichtian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Salenioida - Saleniidae
Salenia sp. Gray 1835
Echinoidea - Orthopsidae
Orthopsis miliaris (d'Archiac 1835)
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Santander
Coordinates: 43.5° North, 3.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.7° North, 3.1° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cabo de Lata
Stratigraphy comments: Basal beds crossbedded calcarenites with manny hardgrounds and temporary hiatuses in sedimentation and were deposited during falling sea level,
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandy "limestone"
Lithology description: Thin bedded to massive sandy limestones with tempestites, sandy lenses surge channels and conglomerates
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Collection method comments: Echinodids only, collected from Site 9 of the Cabo Mayor collection
Metadata
Database number:157011
Authorizer:M. Hopkins Enterer:S. Mahmood
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-06-04 10:10:29 Last modified:2014-06-04 10:10:29
Access level:the public Released:2014-06-04 10:10:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
45052. A. B. Smith, J. Gallemí, C. H. Jeffery, G. Ernst, and P. D. Ward. 1999. Late Cretaceous-early Tertiary echinoids from northern Spain: implications for the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Geology) 55(2):81-137 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]