Santa Cruz Cliff, delta abandonment assemblage, Lisboa (Jurassic of Portugal)

Where: Portugal (39.1° N, 9.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 1.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified lime mudstone and lithified, calcareous sandstone

• shelly micrite and shelly calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. T. Fürsich. 1981. Salinity-controlled benthic associations from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal. Lethaia 14:203-223 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68237: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.01.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
sp. A
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Cerithiidae indet. Fleming 1822 cerith snail
sp. A, B and E
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Harpagodes sp. Gill 1870 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834 moon snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Acteoninidae
"Actaeonina morini" = Acteonina
"Actaeonina morini" = Acteonina snail
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
 Ostreida - Malleidae
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Camptonectes (Camptonectes) cf. lens" = Camptonectes lens, Spondylus sp.
"Camptonectes (Camptonectes) cf. lens" = Camptonectes lens Sowerby 1818 scallop
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
? Grammatodon sp. Meek and Hayden 1860 clam
 Heteroconchia -
Heterodonta indet. Neumayr 1884 clam
 Myoida -
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
? Isocyprina sp. Röder 1882 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia (Protocardia) sp. Beyrich 1845 cockle
sp. A and B
 Carditida - Astartidae
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Echinoidea
 Euechinoidea - Hemicidaridae
 Ichnofossils -