Association 4: Late/Upper Oxfordian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Palaeonucula menkii
2 individuals
Palaeonucula sp. Quenstedt 1930
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pterioida
Cingentolium partitum (Sowerby 1840)
8 individuals
recombined as Costentolium partitum
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
1 individual
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium sp. (Meek 1865)
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Spondylopecten subspinosus
2 individuals
Radulopecten fibrosus (Sowerby 1816)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon concinnum
21 individuals
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Nicaniella cf. phillis
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain
Coordinates: 41.3° North, 1.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.1° North, 8.9° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Oxfordian
Age range of interval:157.90000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Turia Formation:Sot de Chera
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Tosos section
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:offshore ramp Tectonic setting:passive margin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression,original calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:some
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:mechanical
Collection size:42 individuals
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Grammatodon (G.) concinnum-Cingentolium (C.) partitum association
Database number:36215
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:M. Manojlovic Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-01-19 06:17:28 Last modified:2016-07-19 15:49:54
Access level:the public Released:2004-01-19 06:17:28
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

9710. G. Delvene. 2003. Middle and Upper Jurassic bivalve associations from the Iberian Range (Spain). Las asociaciones de bivalvos del Jurasico Medio y Superior en la Cordillera Iberica (Espana). GĂ©obios 36(5):519-531 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/P. Wagner]