Rio Serpis, Gandia, Valencia (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Spain (38.9° N, 0.2° W: paleocoordinates 29.6° N, 8.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified carbonate

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. P. Masse, C. Arias, and L. Vilas. 1998. Lower Cretaceous Rudist faunas of Southeast Spain: an overview. GĂ©obios 22:193-210 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64383: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.09.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Requieniidae
Matheronia sp. Munier-Chalmas 1873 rudist
 Hippuritida - Monopleuridae
Monopleura sp. Matheron 1842 rudist
sp. 4
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Triploporellaceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Foraminifera
  -
 Textulariina - Pfenderinidae
 Loftusiacea - Cyclamminidae