El Pinetell, Montblanc district (Triassic of Spain)

Where: Spain (41.3° N, 1.1° E: paleocoordinates 5.9° N, 14.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pedra d'Alcover Formation, Longobardian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• Upper Ladinian, Alcover Unit

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified dolomite

• Clearly marine laminated dolomicrite. The uniformity of the lamination, its fine grain size, the absence of structures such as ripples, and presence of euhedral halite crystals, suggest a very calm and hypersaline depositional environment. Also, these authors suggested the following depositional sequence: (1) the Alcover unit was deposited in an anoxic basin, affected by sporadic currents (of density?) and evolving to hypersaline conditions; (2) it settled among preexisting depressions due to former bioherms; (3) the deposit was caused by decanting from muddy suspensions.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1991

• Repository: Centre d’Història Natural de la Conca de Barberà (Museu Comarcal de la Conca de Barberà)

Primary reference: C. San Vicente and J. Cartanyà. 2017. A new mysid (Crustacea, Mysida) from the Ladinian Stage (Middle Triassic) of Conca de Barberà (Catalonia, NE Iberian Peninsula). Journal of Paleontology 91:968-980 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 188756: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.09.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Malacostraca
 Mysida - Mysidae
Aviamysis pinetellensis n. gen. n. sp.
Aviamysis pinetellensis n. gen. n. sp. San Vicente and Cartanyà 2017 mysid shrimp