Barranco de la Canada C26: Early/Lower Toarcian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Cidaridae indet. Gray 1825
1 individual
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
Lobothyris arcta (Dubar 1931)
114 individuals
(1 measurement)
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Inoperna sowerbiana (Danise et al. 2019)
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus (Schlotheim 1813)
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Neitheidae
Weyla (Weyla) pradoana (Verneuil and Collomb 1853)
1 individual
recombined as Weyla pradoanus
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium (Entolium) corneolum (Young and Bird 1828)
3 individuals
(1 measurement)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna (Pinna) cf. folium (Young and Bird 1822)
8 individuals
original and current combination Pinna folium
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea (Gryphaea) cf. dumortieri Joly 1907
18 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia (Protocardia) striatula Sowerby 1829
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Pronoella (Pronoella) sp. Fischer 1887
1 individual
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
cf. Thecocyathus sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain
Coordinates: 40.0° North, 1.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:28.1° North, 9.7° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Toarcian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 3
*Period:Early/Lower Jurassic
*International age/stage:Early/Lower Toarcian
Key time interval:Early/Lower Toarcian Zone: serpentinum
Age range of interval:184.20000 - 182.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal lithified marl
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:offshore shelf Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Collection size:154 individuals
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:25611
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:D. Hempfling
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-09-19 06:11:11 Last modified:2017-07-30 11:22:07
Access level:the public Released:2002-09-19 06:11:11
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

7068. M. E. Gahr. 2002. Palökologie benthischer Faunen aus dem Unter-Toarc SW-Europas. [F. Fursich/D. Hempfling/P. Wagner]