Consolacao, Peniche area, Thracia assemblage (Jurassic of Portugal)

Where: Portugal (39.3° N, 9.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 1.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• 2 beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta front; lithified siltstone

• marly siltstones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. Werner. 1986. Palökologische und biofazielle Analyse des Kimmeridge (Oberjura) von Consolacao, Mittelportugal [Paleoecological and biofacies analysis of the Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) of Consolacao, central Portugal]. Zitteliana 13:3-109 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67951: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.12.2006

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus sp. Linnaeus 1758 mussel
Arcomytilus sp. Agassiz 1843 mussel
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
 Heteroconchia -
Heterodonta indet. Neumayr 1884 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Nicaniella sp. Chavan 1945 clam
Nicaniella (Trautscholdia) sp. Cox and Arkell 1948 clam
sp. A
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Caestocorbula sp. Vincent 1910 clam
sp. A
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia intexta Muenster 1837 cockle
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Isocyprina sp. Röder 1882 clam
 Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia incerta Thurmann 1836 clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Mesosaccella dammariensis pointed nut clam
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Procerithiidae
Procerithium sp. Cossmann 1902 snail
Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Cytherellidae
 Podocopida - Cytheruridae
Cytheropteron sp. Sars 1866 ostracod
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Asciocythere sp. ostracod
sp. 2
Schuleridea sp. Swartz and Swain 1946 ostracod
Nodosariata
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804
Foraminifera
  -
 Loftusiacea - Cyclamminidae