Where: Portugal (38.9° N, 9.3° W: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 1.2° E)
When: Calcaires à Rudistes de Praia dos Coxos Formation, Hauterivian (132.9 - 129.4 Ma)
• 5m
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, gray, yellow grainstone and poorly lithified, blue marl
Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ),
Primary reference: J. Rey. 1972. Recherches géologiques sur le Crétacé inférieur de l'Estremadura (Portugal). Serviços Geologicos de Portugal 21:1-477 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 73321: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 12.06.2007
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Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Trochotiara bourgueti sea urchin | |
Toxaster exilis heart urchin | |
unclassified | |
Chordata indet. Haeckel 1874 | |
Gastropoda | |
Glauconia sp. Stoliczka 1868 snail | |
Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834 moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Exogyra tuberculifera" = Ceratostreon tuberculiferum
"Exogyra tuberculifera" = Ceratostreon tuberculiferum Koch and Dunker 1837 oyster | |
Venus sp. Linnaeus 1758 venus clam | |
"Cyprina sp." = Arctica
"Cyprina sp." = Arctica Schumacher 1817 clam | |
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam | |
Ostracoda | |
Asciocythere sp. ostracod
Schuleridea aff. thoerenensis ostracod | |
Macrodentina sp. n. sp.
Macrodentina sp. n. sp. ostracod | |
Cythereis ex gr. bernardi ostracod | |
Fabanella ex gr. polita ostracod | |
Cytherella sp. Jones 1849 ostracod | |
Nodosariata | |
Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804 | |
Foraminifera | |
Buccicrenata sp. n. sp.
Choffatella decipiens Schlumberger 1905 |