East of Salinas de Pisuerga (Jurassic to of Spain)

Where: Palencia, Spain (42.8° N, 4.4° W: paleocoordinates 31.4° N, 7.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliensbachian to Late/Upper Pliensbachian (189.6 - 182.0 Ma)

• From marly facies in unit 5. Age suggested by field correlation of the Salinas de Pisuerga interval to northerly deposits rich in age-diagnostic ammonoids.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified marl

• Upper offshore environment

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Alava (MCNA)

Primary reference: S. Charbonnier, A. Garassino, and M. A. López-Horgue. 2023. A new species of glypheid lobster, Glyphea pisuergae (Crustacea, Glypheoidea), from the Early Jurassic of Palencia, Basque-Cantabrian Basin, Spain. Annales de Paléontologie 109(102596) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 229863: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.04.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Glypheidae
Glyphea pisuergae n. sp. Charbonnier et al. 2023 decapod