Where: Spain (40.8° N, 0.6° E: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 0.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; sandstone and yellow claystone
•lamination and small-scale trough cross-lamination. Mollusks and spatangoid echinoids are present, although poorly preserved, together with common vegetal remains and abundant foraminifers.
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: J. Aguirre, Z. Belaústegui, R. Domènechb, J. M. Gibert, and J. Martinell. 2014. Snapshot of a lower Pliocene Dendropoma reef from Sant Onofre (Baix Ebre Basin, Tarragona, NE Spain). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 395:9-20 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/S. Ávila]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 153719: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 10.01.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Foraminifera | |
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Ammonia sp. Bruennich 1772 | |
| Globothalamea | |
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Nonion sp. Monfort 1808 | |
| Echinoidea | |
"Spatangoidea indet." = Spatangoida
"Spatangoidea indet." = Spatangoida Agassiz 1840 heart urchin | |
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Mollusca indet. mollusk | |
| Sinusichnus sinuosus | |
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Sinusichnus sinuosus de Gibert 1996 | |