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. GallemÃ, 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] |