Venta Quesada: Turneri - Obtusum, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Cirpa subcostellata (Gemmellaro 1878)
Salgirella albertii (Oppel 1861)
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Prionorhynchiidae
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Zeilleria venusta (Uhlig 1879)
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain
Coordinates: 37.1° North, 4.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Early Jurassic
Stage: Sinemurian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 1
Key time interval: Turneri - Obtusum
Age range of interval: 199.5 - 192.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Gavilán
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal lithified grainstone
Lithology description: Microfacies are represented by grainstone to packstone carbonates with dominant crinoids, brachiopods and bivalves, sometimes with very scarce bryozoans and peloidal remains.
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Geology comments: Crinoidal limestone deposits are interpreted as high-energy deposits in external platforms, tidal to intertidal areas.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Earth and Environmental Sciences Department (University of Alicante, Spain)
Metadata
Database number:197056
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2018-10-20 18:59:25 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2018-10-20 18:59:25
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
67144. J. F. Baeza-Carratalá, A. Dulai, and J. Sandoval. 2018. First evidence of brachiopod diversification after the end-Triassic extinction from the pre-Pliensbachian Internal Subbetic platform (South-Iberian Paleomargin). Geobios 51:367-384 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]