Cuatretonda, Bastida Formation, Member III, Valencia (Cretaceous to of Spain)

Where: Spain (39.0° N, 0.4° W: paleocoordinates 31.1° N, 0.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: III Member (Bastida Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian to Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• bioclastic and sandy limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. Philip. 1983. Le Campanien et le Maastrichtien a rudistes et grands foraminifers de Quatretonda (Provence de Valence, Espagne): une clef pour la biozonation et les correlations stratigraphiques dans le domaine mesogeen. Geologie Mediterraneenne 10(3-4):87-98 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67552: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.11.2006

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Caprinidae
Sabinia sp. Parona 1908 rudist
Foraminifera
  -
 Rotaliina - Lepitorbitoididae
Lepidorbitoides minor Schlumberger 1901
 Planorbulinacea - Planorbulinidae
 Orbitoidacea - Lepidorbitoididae
"Siderolites vidali" = Pseudosiderolites vidali
"Siderolites vidali" = Pseudosiderolites vidali Douville 1907
 Orbitoidacea - Orbitoididae
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae