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
Guettardiscyphia thiolati (Archiac 1846)
90 individuals
Hexactinellida - Hexactinosa - Tretodictyidae
Hexactinella informis
1 individual
Hexactinellida - Lyssacinosa - Leucopsacidae
Reguantella cavernosa
3 individuals
Hexactinellida - Lychniscosa - Callodictyonidae
Brachiolites munterensis
17 individuals
Callicylix eocenicus Pisera and Busquets 2002
10 individuals
Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae
? Prototherium sp. (de Zigno 1887)
Pilleri et al. 1989 2 specimens
Prototherium solei n. sp. Pilleri et al. 1989
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
Formation:Vic Marls Member:La Guixa
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: second Bartonian cycle, transgressive phase
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]