Where: Portugal (38.8° N, 9.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 1.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Marnes à Toxaster Formation, Hauterivian (132.9 - 129.4 Ma)
• 4 m
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, gray 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 65858: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 26.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Toxaster retusus Lamarck 1816 heart urchin | |
Orthopsis repellini sea urchin | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Terebratula acuta" = Homoeorhynchia acuta, "Rhynchonella" sp.
"Terebratula acuta" = Homoeorhynchia acuta Sowerby 1816
"Rhynchonella" sp. Fischer 1809 | |
Bivalvia | |
Lopha rectangularis oyster | |
Exogyra couloni oyster | |
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797 file clam | |
Ostracoda | |
Cytherella sp. Jones 1849 ostracod | |
Bairdia sp. M'Coy 1844 ostracod | |
Asciocythere cf. brevis ostracod
Schuleridea aff. thoerenensis ostracod
Schuleridea sp. Swartz and Swain 1946 ostracod | |
Cythereis bernardi ostracod | |
Nodosariata | |
Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804 | |
Foraminifera | |
Buccicrenata sp. n. sp.
Buccicrenata sp. n. sp. | |
Astraeidae | |
"Montlivaultia sp." = Montlivaltia
"Montlivaultia sp." = Montlivaltia Lamouroux 1821 |