Carrapateira-T, Unit B, Faro: Early/Lower Kimmeridgian, Portugal

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae - Burgundiidae
Burgundia trinorchii Dehorne 1916
Demospongiae - Plakinida - Plakinidae
? Plakinidae indet.
Cyclamminidae
Everticyclammina virguliana
Hottingeritidae
Alveosepta jaccardi
Cyanophyceae
Cayeuxia sp. Frollo 1938
see common names

Geography
Country:Portugal
Coordinates: 37.2° North, 8.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.5° North, 0.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
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
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: 30 m of marly limestones
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:68248
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate,micropaleontology
Created:2007-01-11 06:09:21 Last modified:2007-01-11 08:09:21
Access level:the public Released:2007-01-11 06:09:12
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

19633. G. Termier, H. Termier, and M. Ramalho. 1985. Spongiofaunes du Jurassique Superieur du Portugal. Comunicacoes dos Servicos Geologicos de Portugal 71(2):197-222 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]