Puentedey, bed 18 (sample 2) (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Spain (43.0° N, 3.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 0.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mammites nodosoides ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Multiple fossiliferous horizons indicated, but not numbered.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Departamento de Paleontologia of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid (UCM)

Primary reference: F. Barroso-Barcenilla. 2004. Acanthoceratidae y zonación de ammonites del Cenomaniense superior y del Turoniense inferior en el área de Puentedey, Cuenca Vasco-Cantábrica, España. Coloquios de Paleontología 54:83-114 [L. Bulot/L. Bulot/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 187012: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.07.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Mammites nodosoides Schlüter 1871 ammonite