Where: Spain (37.9° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 4.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: El Bosque Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
• The upper part of the section can extend to the early Chattian.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; silty packstone and rudstone
•branching and foliose coralline algae variously fragmented.
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: J. C. Braga and D. Bassi. 2011. Facies and coralline algae from Oligocene limestones in the Malaguide Complex (SE Spain). Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, Serie A (113)291-308 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 147590: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 09.07.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
unclassified | |
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758 | |
Florideophyceae | |
Polystrata alba Pfender 1936 | |
Globothalamea | |
Sphaerogypsina sp. Galloway 1933 | |
Foraminifera | |
Amphistegina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Asterigerina sp. d'Orbigny 1839 | |
Tubothalamea | |
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839 |