Where: Spain (42.0° N, 2.2° E: paleocoordinates 40.2° N, 1.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: La Guixa Member (Vic Marls Formation), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• second Bartonian cycle, transgressive phase
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. Pisera and P. Busquets. 2002. Eocene siliceous sponges from the Ebro Basin (Catalonia, Spain). GĂ©obios 35(3):321-346 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 61247: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.06.2006, edited by Mihaela Krause
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hexactinellida | |
Plocoscyphia sp. Reuss 1846 glass sponge
Brachiolites munterensis glass sponge
Callicylix eocenicus Pisera and Busquets 2002 glass sponge | |
"Rhizocheton robustus" = Rhizopoterion
"Rhizocheton robustus" = Rhizopoterion glass sponge | |
Pleuroguettardia iberica n. sp.
Pleuroguettardia iberica n. sp. glass sponge | |
Guettardiscyphia sp. Fromentel 1860 glass sponge
Guettardiscyphia thiolati Archiac 1846 glass sponge | |
Laocaetis sp. Pomel 1872 glass sponge | |
Hexactinella informis n. sp.
Hexactinella informis n. sp. glass sponge | |
Demospongiae | |
Propetrosia pristina n. gen. n. sp.
Propetrosia pristina n. gen. n. sp. demosponge | |
? Opetionella sp. Zittel 1878 demosponge |