Quatretonda, Spain (Unit 2): Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Phymosomatidae
Phymosoma hexaporum
Echinoidea - Salenioida - Saleniidae
Salenia geometrica
Echinoidea - Nucleolitidae
Nucleolites sp. Lamarck 1801
Echinoidea - Clypeolampadidae
Clypeolampas ovatus (Lamarck 1816)
Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Faujasiidae
Faujasia eccentripora Lees 1928
Echinoidea - Echinoneoida - Conulidae
Globator ? orientalis
"orientalis (?)" - originally entered as "Globator orientalis (?)"
Echinoidea - Holasteroida - Holasteridae
Holaster sp. Agassiz 1836
Hemipneustes ? nicklesi Vidal 1921
synonym of Hemipneustes persicus
"nicklesi (?)" - originally entered as "Hemipneustes nicklesi (?)"
Opisopneustes sp.
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Proraster ? geayi Cottreau 1908
"geayi (?)" - originally entered as "Proraster geayi (?)"
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster sp. Agassiz and Desor 1847
Echinoidea - Holectypoida - Holectypidae
Caenholectypus ? subcrassus
original and current combination Coenholectypus
"subcrassus (?)" - originally entered as "Coenholectypus subcrassus (?)"
Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Prionocidaris sp. Agassiz 1863
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Platyceramus adjakendsis
Platyceramus cycloides (Wegner 1905)
"cycloides ricardoi" - originally entered as "Platyceramus cycloides ricardoi"
Endocostea regularis (d'Orbigny 1845)
Endocostea cf. regularis (d'Orbigny 1845)
originally entered as "Endocostea cf. regularis"
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
Almerarhynchia virgiliana
originally entered as "Almerarynchia virgiliana"
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain
Coordinates: 38.9° North, 0.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.5° North, 0.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
*Period:Middle Cretaceous - Late/Upper Cretaceous *Epoch:Senonian
*International age/stage:Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Stage range given is max. estimate.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Secondary lithology: "limestone"
Geology comments: Reference section for the External Prebetic.

Sandstones interbeeded with sandy limestones.

Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:3772
Authorizer:C. Marshall Enterer:S. Low
Modifier:C. Visaggi Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-09 18:49:56 Last modified:2004-03-11 16:25:06
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:20
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

246. J. Gallemi, G. Lopez, R. Martinez, J. Munoz and J. M. Pons. 1997. Albian-Cenomanian and Campanian-Maastrichtian biostratigraphy of southeast Spain. Cretaceous Research 18(3):355-372 [C. Marshall/S. Low]