Where: Spain (42.9° N, 2.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.5° N, 1.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Albeniz Member (Eguino Formation), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• The late Albian age of the Aldoirar carbonate bank has been determined on the basis of regional stratigraphic inferences and a single ammonite from the stratigraphically youngest section exposed at the quarry (Klompmaker, 2013). The reefal limestones become progressively younger toward the southeast, using a combination of geopetal structures in brachiopod shells from Koskobilo quarry and the orientation of more clearly bedded limestones of the same patch reef at a directly adjacent quarry (López-Horgue et al., 1996, Klompmaker et al., 2013b). A more precise age assignment, i.e., early late Albian and corresponding to the Hysteroceras varicosum ammonite Zone, has recently been suggested by López-Horgue and Bodego (2017).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Museo Geológico del Seminario de Barcelona

Primary reference: A. A. Klompmaker, R. M. Feldmann, C. M. Robins and C. E. Schweitzer. 2012. Peak diversity of Cretaceous galatheoids (Crustacea, Decapoda) from northern Spain. Cretaceous Research 36:125-145 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138813: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 28.01.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

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