Casa Blanca-Puerto de las Palomas, Unit 8, Andalucia (Jurassic of Spain)

Where: Spain (37.6° N, 3.7° W: paleocoordinates 28.4° N, 6.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Bajocian (171.6 - 168.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified marl and lithified limestone

• 117 m thick

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. Oloriz and P. Rivas. 1978. La serie Jurasica de la unidad Casa Blanca-Puerto de las Palomas (Zona Subbetica) [The Jurassic series of the Casa Blanca-Puerto de las Palomas Unit (Subbetic Zone)]. Cuadernos de Geologica 8-9:205-224 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 73294: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phylloceras sp., Partschiceras sp.
Phylloceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite
Partschiceras sp. Fucini 1920 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Bradfordia sp., Bradfordia costidensa, Bradfordia ex gr. costidensa, Bradfordia caribouensis, Bradfordia ex gr. helenae, Bradfordia ex gr. liomphala
Bradfordia sp. Buckman 1910 ammonite
Bradfordia ex gr. liomphala Buckman 1910 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Strigoceratidae
Strigoceras sp.
Strigoceras sp. Quenstedt 1886 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Stephanoceratidae
Stephanoceras ex gr. obesum, Stephanoceras sp.
Stephanoceras sp. Waagen 1869 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Otoitidae
Emileia sp., Otoites sp., Docidoceras sp.
Emileia sp. ammonite
Otoites sp. ammonite
Docidoceras sp. Buckman 1919 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Hammatoceratidae
Eudmetoceras klymakomphalum, Eudmetoceras (Rhodaniceras) profues, Zurcheria sp.
Eudmetoceras klymakomphalum ammonite
subsp. discoidale
Zurcheria sp. ammonite
 Ammonitida - Sonniniidae
Fontannesia sp., Witchellia sp., Witchellia cf. falcata, Witchellia connata, "Fontannesia ex gr. clarkei" = Newmarracarroceras clarkei, Dorsetensia ex gr. romani, "Sonninia (Poecilomorphus) schlumbergeri" = Sonninia (Sonninia) schlumbergeri, Sonninia (Poecilomorphus) boweri, Sonninia (Poecilomorphus) sp.
Witchellia sp. Buckman 1889 ammonite
Witchellia connata Buckman 1927 ammonite
"Fontannesia ex gr. clarkei" = Newmarracarroceras clarkei Crick 1894 ammonite
Dorsetensia ex gr. romani Schlegelmilch 1985 ammonite
subsp. romani
"Sonninia (Poecilomorphus) schlumbergeri" = Sonninia (Sonninia) schlumbergeri Haug 1893 ammonite
Sonninia (Poecilomorphus) boweri ammonite
subsp. boweri
 Ammonitida - Graphoceratidae
Graphoceras sp.
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
? Alocolytoceras sp., Lytoceras ex gr. subescens, Lytoceras (Thysanolytoceras) sp., Lytoceras ex gr. ophioneum, ? Nannolytoceras sp.
? Alocolytoceras sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite
? Nannolytoceras sp. Buckman 1905 ammonite