Zabaltza - Ledea-Liédena towns, Gendulain Fm, Liédena Sandstone Mmb (Eocene of Spain)

Where: Spain (42.8° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 5.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Liédena Sandstone Member (Gendulain Formation), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: H. Astibia, A. Payros, S. Ortiz, J. Elorza, G. Álvarez-Pérez, A. Badiola, N. Bardet, A. Berreteaga, M.A. Bitner, S. Calzada, J.C. Corral, I. Díaz-Martínez, D. Merle, J.-M. Pacaud, X. Pereda-Suberbiola, A. Pisera, F.J. Rodríguez-Tovar and J. Tosquella. 2016. Fossil associations from the middle and upper Eocene strata of the Pamplona Basin and surrounding areas (Navarre, western Pyrenees). Journal of Iberian Geology 42(1):7-28 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 179725: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 28.06.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
  - Koreanaornipodidae
Koreanaornis sp. Kim 1969 bird
cf. Koreanaornis sp. Kim 1969 bird
  -
Gruipeda sp. Panin and Avram 1962 bird
Leptoptilostipus
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cf. Leptoptilostipus sp. Payros et al. 2000
Leptoptilostipus pyrenaicus
  -
Leptoptilostipus pyrenaicus Payros et al. 2000
 Ichnofossils -
Cochlichnus sp. Hitchcock 1858