El Pouet (43.4 m): Early Aptian, Spain
collected 1980
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cyclamminidae
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Choffatella decipiens
Schlumberger 1905
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Ostracoda
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Ostracoda indet.
Latreille 1802
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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Geography
| Country: | Spain | State/province: | Valenciana |
| Coordinates: | 40.6° North, 0.1° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 30.1° North, 10.1° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Altitude: | 920 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Barremian | ||
| Key time interval: | Early Aptian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 121.4 - 119.5 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Capas Rojas | ||||
| Local section: | El Pouet | Local bed: | 43.4 m | ||
| Local order: | top to bottom | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "lower Bedoulian", bed located 43.4 m from top of section | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | wave ripples sandy wackestone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "sandy limestones with ostreid shells and 0.1 m banks of ripples and zoogenic-micritic limestones" | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis | Collection dates: | 1980s |
Metadata
| Database number: | 45159 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | marine invertebrate,micropaleontology |
| Created: | 2004-10-08 11:05:59 | Last modified: | 2009-05-13 11:46:17 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-10-08 11:05:59 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 11753. | ETE | J. V. Santafé, M. L. Casanovas, J. L. Sanz and Y. S. Calzada. 1982. Geologia y Paleontologia (Dinosaurios) de las Capas rojas de Morella (Castellón, España) [Geology and paleontology (Dinosauria) of the Capas Rojas of Morella (Castellón, Spain)]. Diputación Provincial de Castellón y Diputación de Barcelona 1-169 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |