Where: Cantabria, Spain (43.4° N, 3.3° W: paleocoordinates 31.8° N, 4.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Miono Formation, Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)
• 11 m thick
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified marl and lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: I. Rosales, D. Mehl, P. A. Fernandez-Mendiola and J. Garcia-Mondejar. 1995. An unusual poriferan community in the Albian of Islares (north Spain): palaeoenvironmental and tectonic implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 119:47-61 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 110529: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.06.2011, edited by Marko Manojlovic
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Tropeothyris islarensis n. sp.
Tropeothyris islarensis n. sp. Middlemiss 1984 | |
Hexactinellida | |
Cribrospongia sp. d'Orbigny 1849 glass sponge | |
Demospongiae | |
Chenendopora fungiformis Lamouroux 1821 demosponge | |
Phymaraphinia infundibuliformis Schrammen 1901 demosponge | |
Aulaxinia ventricosa Schrammen 1910 demosponge
Aulaxinia sulcifera Roemer 1864 demosponge | |
Pachinion scriptum Roemer 1864 demosponge
Procorallistes polymorphus Schrammen 1901 demosponge | |
Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri Hinde 1884 demosponge
Doryderma (Brochodora) ramusculus Schrammen 1910 demosponge
Pachypoterion auritum Schrammen 1910 demosponge |