Consolacao, Peniche area, Thracia-Corbulomima assemblage (Jurassic of Portugal)

Where: Portugal (39.3° N, 9.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 1.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• 3 beds in the upper part of the lower half of the section

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: prodelta; lithified siltstone and lithified marl

• low energy prodelta
• clayey siltstones and silty marls

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. Werner. 1986. Palökologische und biofazielle Analyse des Kimmeridge (Oberjura) von Consolacao, Mittelportugal [Paleoecological and biofacies analysis of the Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) of Consolacao, central Portugal]. Zitteliana 13:3-109 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67943: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.12.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Axiidae
Magila sp. Munster 1839 decapod
Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Cytherellidae
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Asciocythere aff. sp. ostracod
sp. 2
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
sp. A and B
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
Ampullina sp. Férussac 1822 snail
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
sp. T
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Mesosaccella dammariensis pointed nut clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus sp. Linnaeus 1758 mussel
Inoperna perplicata Etallon 1863 mussel
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra sp. Say 1820 oyster
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864 scallop
 Arcida - Arcidae
 Heteroconchia -
Heterodonta indet. Neumayr 1884 clam
 Poromyida - Cuspidariidae
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Pandorida - Laternulidae
 Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia incerta Thurmann 1836 clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Caestocorbula sp. Vincent 1910 clam
sp. A
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam
sp. D
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia sp. Beyrich 1845 cockle
sp. P
Protocardia intexta Muenster 1837 cockle
 Carditida - Astartidae
Foraminifera
 Loftusiacea - Hottingeritidae
 Loftusiacea - Cyclamminidae