Portugal E7/42: Early/Lower Tithonian, Portugal

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus imbricatus (Sowerby 1818)
2 specimens
recombined as Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria pygmaea
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Juranomia calcibyssata
80 specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Nicaniella lusitanica
7 specimens
Bivalvia - Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia tombecki
12 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia peraltaensis
9 specimens
Protocardia intexta (Muenster 1837)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Neomiodontidae
Eomiodon sp. Cox 1935
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Myopholas multicostata (Agassiz 1842)
2 specimens
Bivalvia
Heterodonta indet. Neumayr 1884
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Myoida
Jurassicorbula edwardi
29 specimens
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Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Cerithiidae indet. (Fleming 1822)
3 specimens
Asteroidea
Asteroidea sp. de Blainville 1830
1 specimen
Ossikel [originally entered as "Asteroida sp."]
see common names

Geography
Country:Portugal County:Estremadura
Coordinates: 39.1° North, 9.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.4° North, 0.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Tithonian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 6
*Period:Late/Upper Jurassic
*International age/stage:Early/Lower Tithonian
Key time interval:Early/Lower Tithonian
Age range of interval:150.80000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sobral
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine poorly lithified argillaceous,sandy siltstone
Lithology description: argillaceous, silt; towards top: fine sand with scattered medium quartz grains and lignite pieces
Environment:estuary/bay Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:8319
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:E. Link
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-07-06 07:51:23 Last modified:2017-07-28 18:04:04
Access level:the public Released:2000-07-06 07:51:23
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

41. F. T. Fürsich. 1999. Unpublished data. [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/P. Wagner]