Section Y.Mv - Bed 249, Cortijo de Miravetes, Rio Argos, Caravaca, Murcia: Berriasian, Spain
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Protancyloceratidae
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Leptoceras studeri
(Ooster 1860)
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Haploceratidae
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Neolissoceras grasianum
(d'Orbigny 1841)
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Neocomitidae
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Fauriella boissieri
(Pictet 1867)
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Berriasella calisto
(d'Orbigny 1850)
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Coccolithophyceae
- Eiffellithales
- Rhagodiscaceae
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Percivalia nebulosa
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Geography
| Country: | Spain |
| Coordinates: | 38.1° North, 1.9° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 29.8° North, 6.2° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Berriasian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 1 |
| Key time interval: | Berriasian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 145 - 139.8 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Miravetes | ||||
| Local section: | Y.Mv (Rio Argos) | Local bed: | 249 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: T. alpillensis ammonite subzone, P. fenestrata nannofossil subzone, Calpionellopsis calpionellid zone | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified marl |
| Lithology description: rhythmic alternation of marly limestone beds (5-70 cm thick) and marly interbeds (varying between a few cm and several m thick) | |
| Environment: | basinal (carbonate) |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 64970 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate,micropaleontology |
| Created: | 2006-09-18 02:55:01 | Last modified: | 2006-09-18 05:55:01 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-09-18 02:54:59 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 18720. | R. Aguado, M. Company, and J. M. Tavera. 2000. The Berriasian/Valanginian boundary in the Mediterranean region: new data from the Caravaca and Cehegin sections, SE Spain. Cretaceous Research 21:1-21 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |