Consolacao, Peniche area, Mesosaccella-Protocardia assemblage: Early/Lower Kimmeridgian, Portugal

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Arcomytilus sp. Agassiz 1843
1.6 %-specimens
Inoperna perplicata (Etallon 1863)
4.7 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
"Arca" cruciata
1.6 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes cf. comatus
1.6 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Nicaniella sp. Chavan 1945
4.7 %-specimens
sp. B
Nicaniella (Trautscholdia) supracorallina
3.1 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbulomima suprajurensis
7.8 %-specimens
Corbulomima sp. Vokes 1945
4.7 %-specimens
sp. G
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789
3.1 %-specimens
sp. D
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia sp. (Beyrich 1845)
9.4 %-specimens
sp. P
Protocardia intexta (Muenster 1837)
14.1 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Isocyprina sp. Röder 1882
7.8 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia incerta (Thurmann 1836)
4.7 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Mesosaccella dammariensis
31.3 %-specimens
Ostracoda
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802
Nodosariata - Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804
Cyclamminidae
Pseudocyclammina parvula
Hottingeritidae
Alveosepta jaccardi
see common names

Geography
Country:Portugal
Coordinates: 39.3° North, 9.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.5° North, 1.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Kimmeridgian
Age range of interval:154.80000 - 152.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Consolacao Local bed:83-84 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified siltstone
Environment:prodelta
Geology comments: low energy prodelta
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:67944
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-12-18 05:40:46 Last modified:2006-12-18 07:40:47
Access level:the public Released:2006-12-18 05:40:42
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

19405. W. Werner. 1986. Palökologische und biofazielle Analyse des Kimmeridge (Oberjura) von Consolacao, Mittelportugal [Paleoecological and biofacies analysis of the Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) of Consolacao, central Portugal]. Zitteliana 13:3-109 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]