Asteroidea, Santonian, Sierra de Montsech, Pyrenees (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Spain (42.0° N, 0.8° E: paleocoordinates 31.0° N, 3.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified, yellow marl and lithified, peloidal, shelly/skeletal grainstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with calcite

Reposited in the MfN

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: C. Neumann and H. Hess. 2001. Coulonia parva n. sp., a new species of Astropectinidae (Asteroidea; Echinodermata) from the Santonian (Upper Cretaceous) of Sierra de Montsech (Southern Pyrenees, Spain). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 75(1):7-11 [L. Villier/L. Villier/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59762: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 11.04.2006

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Fabulariidae
Asteroidea
 Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Coulonia parva n. sp. Neumann and Hess 2001 sea star