Where: Spain (40.5° N, 0.2° E: paleocoordinates 29.9° N, 10.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Villarroya Formation, Early/Lower Aptian (121.4 - 122.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: N. Malchus, J. M. Pons, and R. Salas. 1995. Rudist distribution in the Lower Aptian shallow platform of La Mola de Xert, Eastern Iberian Range, NE Spain. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas 12(2):224-235 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 64795: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Requienia sp. Matheron 1842 rudist
Toucasia sp. Munier-Chalmas 1873 rudist | |
Monopleura sp. Matheron 1842 rudist | |
Horiopleura sp. Douvillé 1889 rudist | |
Chondrodonta sp. Stanton 1901 scallop | |
Gastropoda | |
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Diptyxis luttickei snail | |
Aptyxiella libanotica snail
Multiptyxis prefleuriani snail |