Barranco de la Masia MA8: Early/Lower Toarcian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pachymya (Arcomya) sp. Sowerby 1826
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya aequistriata Agassiz 1845
1 individual
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Nicaniella (Nicaniella) cf. voltzi (Honighaus 1836)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
cf. Lithophaga (Lithophaga) sp. Röding 1798
1 individual
Lycettia lunularis (Lycett 1857)
9 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus (Schlotheim 1813)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Lima (Pseudolimea) cf. roemeri Brauns 1871
1 individual
recombined as Limea (Pseudolimea) roemeri
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula (Harpax) spinosa Sowerby 1819
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Dimyidae
Atreta sp. Etallon 1862
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinnidae indet. Leach 1819
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea (Catinula) cf. crickleyensis (Cox 1946)
1 individual
Gryphaea (Bilobissa) cf. sublobata (Deshayes 1830)
19 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Gibbirhynchia micra Ager 1954
12 individuals
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: 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 lime mudstone
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:52 individuals
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:26325
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:D. Hempfling
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-10-13 09:50:15 Last modified:2017-07-31 15:46:07
Access level:the public Released:2002-10-13 09:50:15
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]