Section M.CL - Bed 2, Canada Luenga, Cehegin, Murcia: Berriasian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Haploceratidae
Neolissoceras grasianum (d'Orbigny 1841)
recombined as Haploceras grasianum
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Erdenella paquieri
synonym of Subalpinites
Tirnovella alpillensis Mazenot 1939
Berriasella calisto (d'Orbigny 1850)
Fauriella boissieri (Pictet 1867)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
Spiticeras ex gr. multiforme Djanelidze 1922
Pteropsida
Sturiella oblonga
Protozoa - Spirotrichia
Tintinnopsella carpathica
listed as Tintinopsella
Tintinnopsella longa
listed as Tintinopsella
Remaniella cadischiana
Remaniella filipescui
Protozoa - Calpionellida
Calpionellopsis simplex
Calpionellopsis oblonga
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain
Coordinates: 38.1° North, 1.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.7° North, 6.2° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Berriasian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 1
Key time interval:Berriasian
Age range of interval:145.00000 - 139.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Miravetes
Local section:M.CL (Canada Luenga) Local bed:2
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: T. alpillensis ammonite subzone, Calpionellopsis calpionellid zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: rhythmic alternation of marly limestone beds and marly interbeds
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:65289
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate,micropaleontology
Created:2006-09-21 01:09:45 Last modified:2006-09-21 04:09:46
Access level:the public Released:2006-09-21 01:09:44
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]