Malaguide Complex, Casa de la Sabina locality, sample SAB04e (Oligocene of Spain)

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

• 13 m thick. Rhodoliths a few centimetres in size and loose

•branching and foliose coralline algae variously fragmented.

• Packstone to rudstone

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
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Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
unclassified
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Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Polystrata alba Pfender 1936
Globothalamea
 Loftusiida - Acervulinidae
Sphaerogypsina sp. Galloway 1933
Foraminifera
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
 Asterigerinacea - Amphisteginidae
Amphistegina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
 Asterigerinacea - Asterigerinidae
Asterigerina sp. d'Orbigny 1839
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Alveolinidae
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839