Barranco de la Canada C86: Early/Lower Toarcian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
Lobothyris hispanica (Dubar 1931)
44 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Homoeorhynchia meridionalis (Deslongchamps 1863)
29 individuals
recombined as Homoeorhynchia cynocephala meridionalis
= Homoeorhynchia meridionalis batalleri
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Homomya cf. alsatica Agassiz 1842
1 individual
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Myoconcha sp. Sowerby 1824
1 individual
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia (Protocardia) striatula Sowerby 1829
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Unicardium cardioides (Phillips 1829)
1 individual
recombined as Mactromya cardioides
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Arcomytilus asper (Sowerby 1818)
5 individuals
Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus (Sowerby 1818)
1 individual
(1 measurement)
Modiolus (Modiolus) cf. giganteus Quenstedt 1857
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea (Gryphaea) cf. dumortieri Joly 1907
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna (Pinna) cf. folium (Young and Bird 1822)
4 individuals
original and current combination Pinna folium
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis striatula (Oppel 1856)
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula (Harpax) cf. auricula Eudes-Deslongchamps 1858
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma (Oxytoma) inequivalve (Sowerby 1819)
8 individuals
recombined as Oxytoma inequivalvis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Lima (Pseudolimea) duplicata Carle Sowerby 1827
1 individual
recombined as Lima (Mantellum) duplicata
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814
4 individuals
Plagiostoma rodburgensis (Whidborne 1883)
4 individuals
(1 measurement)
Plagiostoma punctatum Sowerby 1818
8 individuals
Ctenostreon rugosum (Smith 1817)
3 individuals
original and current combination Ostrea rugosa
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus (Schlotheim 1813)
4 individuals
Chlamys (Chlamys) textoria (Schlotheim 1820)
2 individuals
recombined as Chlamys textoria
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium (Entolium) corneolum (Young and Bird 1828)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Parvamussium pumilum (Lamarck 1819)
4 individuals
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
cf. Pseudomytiloides sp. Koschelkina 1963
1 individual
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea (Idonearca) muensteri (Oppel 1856)
11 individuals
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon (Grammatodon) concinnus (Phillips 1829)
1 individual
recombined as Grammatodon concinnus
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 floatstone
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:151 individuals
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:25621
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:D. Hempfling
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-09-19 07:45:17 Last modified:2017-07-30 11:23:24
Access level:the public Released:2002-09-19 07:45:17
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]