La Almunia de Dona Godina AL18: Early/Lower Toarcian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
Liospiriferina rostrata (Schlotheim 1820)
24 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Gibbirhynchia micra Ager 1954
6 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Zeilleria (Zeilleria) quadrifida (Lamarck 1819)
1 individual
recombined as Zeilleria quadrifida
Aulacothyris resupinata (Sowerby 1816)
7 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
Lobothyris edwardsi (Davidson 1851)
9 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Lima (Pseudolimea) cf. roemeri Brauns 1871
1 individual
recombined as Limea (Pseudolimea) roemeri
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula (Harpax) spinosa Sowerby 1819
5 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea (Bilobissa) cf. sublobata (Deshayes 1830)
4 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya aequistriata Agassiz 1845
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain
Coordinates: 41.0° North, 1.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.0° North, 10.2° 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: tenuicostatum
Age range of interval:184.20000 - 182.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation,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:58 individuals
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:25936
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:D. Hempfling
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-09-29 01:56:40 Last modified:2017-07-30 11:28:53
Access level:the public Released:2002-09-29 01:56:40
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]

Secondary references:

36376 F. García Joral, J. J. Gómez, and A. Goy. 2011. Mass extinction and recovery of the Early Toarcian (Early Jurassic) brachiopods linked to climate change in Northern and Central Spain. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 302:367-380 [J. Pálfy/A. Kocsis]