El Canteret (0.0 m) (Cretaceous of Spain)

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

• "ochre marls, ferruginous, crowned by calcareous layers of gray color with [invertebrate fossils]"

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
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Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
 Terebratulida - Laqueidae
"Tamarella chloris" = Psilothyris
"Tamarella chloris" = Psilothyris
 Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Ceratostreon tuberculiferum Koch and Dunker 1837 oyster
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna robinaldina d'Orbigny 1844 oyster
 Arcida - Arcidae
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte obovata Sowerby 1822 clam
 Cardiida - Trapezidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Veneridae indet. Rafinesque 1815 venus clam
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigonia sp. Bruguière 1789 clam
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassiopidae
Glauconia pizcuetana Vilanova 1859 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Tylostomatidae
Tylostoma sp. Sharpe 1849 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Aporrhais sp. da Costa 1778 snail
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Cidaridae indet. Gray 1825 pencil urchin
 Spatangoida - Toxasteridae
Heteraster oblongus Brogniart 1821 heart urchin