Santa Cruz Cliff, Jurassicorbula association, Lisboa: Late Kimmeridgian, Portugal

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Hemicidaridae
Pseudocidaris sp.
0.13 %-specimens
Asteroidea
Asteroidea indet. de Blainville 1830
0.06 %-specimens
Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula (Cycloserpula) sp. Linnaeus 1758
0.20 %-specimens
Serpula (Dorsoserpula) sp. Linnaeus 1758
0.13 %-specimens
Lingulata - Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp. Bruguiére 1797
0.13 %-specimens
Bivalvia
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758
0.33 %-specimens
Heterodonta indet. Neumayr 1884
1.33 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Myoida
Jurassicorbula edwardi
38.86 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Neomiodontidae
Eomiodon securiformis
2.77 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Isocyprina sp. Röder 1882
0.06 %-specimens
Isocyprina (Eotrapezium) eupheno
0.20 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia sp. (Beyrich 1845)
9.95 %-specimens
sp. B
Protocardia intexta (Muenster 1837)
1.21 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbulomima dammariensis
0.13 %-specimens
Corbulomima suprajurensis
0.06 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Myopholas multicostata (Agassiz 1842)
1.21 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia depressa (Sowerby 1823)
9.95 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Pandorida - Laternulidae
Plectomya rugosa
0.06 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Nicaniella sp. Chavan 1945
3.85 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus subreniformis
2.97 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon sp. Meek and Hayden 1860
0.13 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteroperna pygmaea
2.84 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Liostrea dubiensis (Contejean 1859)
0.47 %-specimens
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
2.97 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis suprajurensis
15.63 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864
1.35 %-specimens
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Cerithiidae indet. (Fleming 1822)
2.07 %-specimens
Gastropoda - Acteoninidae
Actaeonina sp. (d'Orbigny 1850)
0.61 %-specimens
Gastropoda - Naticidae
? Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834
0.06 %-specimens
Gastropoda - Neritidae
Nerita sp. Linnaeus 1758
0.06 %-specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Portugal
Coordinates: 39.1° North, 9.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.4° North, 1.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5
Key time interval: Late Kimmeridgian
Age range of interval: 152.2 - 149.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 17 beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified lime mudstone
Secondary lithology: lithified siltstone
Lithology description: thin bands of fine-sandy shelly micrite and marly to fine-sandy silt
Environment:lagoonal
Geology comments: prodelta and brackish lagoons and bays
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Collection size:1477 specimens
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:68234
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-01-10 02:57:24 Last modified:2007-01-10 04:57:25
Access level:the public Released:2007-01-10 02:57:09
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

19628. F. T. Fürsich. 1981. Salinity-controlled benthic associations from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal. Lethaia 14:203-223 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]