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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Tubothalamea | |
Asteroidea | |
Coulonia parva n. sp.
Coulonia parva n. sp. Neumann and Hess 2001 sea star |