Portugal A 1/3: Kimmeridgian, Portugal

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Nerinidae indet.
7 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Terebratulidae indet. Gray 1840
1 individual
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. (Lamarck 1801)
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Liostrea sp. Douvillé 1904
1 individual
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
2 individuals
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Actinostreon solitarium (Sowerby 1824)
222 individuals
synonym of Actinostreon gregareum
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Trichites sp. Lhuyd 1760
22 individuals
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Discomiltha sp. Chavan 1952
4 individuals
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae
Ampullina sp. Férussac 1822
6 individuals
sp. 1
Ampullina sp. Férussac 1822
4 individuals
sp. 2
see common names

Geography
Country:Portugal
Coordinates: 39.5° North, 9.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.7° North, 1.5° 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
*Period:Late/Upper Jurassic *Epoch:Malm
*International age/stage:Kimmeridge
Key time interval:Kimmeridgian
Age range of interval:154.80000 - 149.20000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Alcobaca
Local section:A1 Local bed:3
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified grainstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: grainstone
Environment:carbonate indet. 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:8517
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:H. Eichiner
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-07-25 05:26:22 Last modified:2017-07-28 18:10:10
Access level:the public Released:2000-07-25 05:26:22
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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 Unpublished data.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