Where: Valenciana, Spain (40.6° N, 0.1° W: paleocoordinates 30.1° N, 10.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Capas Rojas Formation, Early/Lower Aptian (125.5 - 122.5 Ma)
• "lower Bedoulian"; bed located 0.0 m from top
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; ferruginous, gray, yellow, calcareous marl
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by J. Sanz et al. in 1978
Primary reference: J. V. Santafé-Llopis, M. L. Casanovas-Cladellas, J. L. Sanz-García and S. Calzada-Badía. 1981. Un nuevo yacimiento de Dinosaurios en el Aptiense inferior de Morella (Castellón) [A new dinosaur locality in the lower Aptian of Morella (Castellón)]. Acta Geològica Hispànica 16(3):139-143 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 45154: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.10.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Porifera indet. Grant 1836 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Tamarella chloris" = Psilothyris
"Tamarella chloris" = Psilothyris | |
Bivalvia | |
Ceratostreon tuberculiferum Koch and Dunker 1837 oyster | |
Pinna robinaldina d'Orbigny 1844 oyster | |
Arca cymadoce ark | |
Astarte obovata Sowerby 1822 clam | |
Cypricardia secans clam | |
Veneridae indet. Rafinesque 1815 venus clam | |
Trigonia sp. Bruguière 1789 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Glauconia pizcuetana Vilanova 1859 snail | |
Tylostoma sp. Sharpe 1849 snail | |
Aporrhais sp. da Costa 1778 snail | |
Confusiscala caneroti wentletrap | |
Echinoidea | |
Cidaridae indet. Gray 1825 pencil urchin | |
Heteraster oblongus Brogniart 1821 heart urchin |