Tona, Vic area, La Guixa Member, Ebro Basin, Catalonia: Bartonian, Spain
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Hexactinellida
- Hexactinosa
- Cribrospongiidae
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Guettardiscyphia thiolati
(Archiac 1846)
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90 individuals | ||||||
Hexactinellida
- Hexactinosa
- Tretodictyidae
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Hexactinella informis
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1 individual | ||||||
Hexactinellida
- Lyssacinosa
- Leucopsacidae
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Reguantella cavernosa
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3 individuals | ||||||
Hexactinellida
- Lychniscosa
- Callodictyonidae
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Brachiolites munterensis
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17 individuals | ||||||
Callicylix eocenicus
Pisera and Busquets 2002
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10 individuals | ||||||
Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Dugongidae
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? Prototherium sp.
(de Zigno 1887)
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Pilleri et al. 1989 | 2 specimens | |||||
Prototherium solei n. sp.
Pilleri et al. 1989
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Pilleri et al. 1989 | 1 specimen | |||||
synonym of Prototherium intermedium | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Spain |
Coordinates: | 41.9° North, 2.2° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 40.1° North, 1.0° West |
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Bartonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
Key time interval: | Bartonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 41.30000 - 38.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified marl |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | deep subtidal shelf |
Geology comments: small sponge mounds, with progressive disappearance of storm beds toward the top of the sequence, a deeper setting of Vic area; outer shelf boundary |
Taphonomy
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 61240 | ||
Authorizer: | W. Kiessling, M. Uhen | Enterer: | U. Merkel, M. Uhen |
Modifier: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2006-06-01 03:18:54 | Last modified: | 2006-06-01 06:19:49 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-06-01 03:18:54 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
17603. | A. Pisera and P. Busquets. 2002. Eocene siliceous sponges from the Ebro Basin (Catalonia, Spain). GĂ©obios 35(3):321-346 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
18839 | G. Pilleri, J. Biosca, and L. Via. 1989. The Tertiary Sirenia of Catalonia 1-98 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |