Santa Cruz de Moya (Jurassic of Spain)

Where: Spain (40.0° N, 1.3° W: paleocoordinates 31.1° N, 8.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Jurassic (161.5 - 145.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Herenger. 1942. Contribution a l'etude des spongiaires du Jurassique et du Cretace de Catalogne. Travaux du Laboratoire de Geologie de la Faculte des Sciences de l'Universite de Grenoble 23:143-192 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 112573: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.07.2011

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Taxonomic list

Hexactinellida
 Lychniscosa - Ventriculitidae
Discophyma sp. Oppliger 1915 glass sponge
 Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae
"Craticularia paradoxa" = Laocoetis paradoxa
"Craticularia paradoxa" = Laocoetis paradoxa Münster 1833 glass sponge
 Hexactinosa - Staurodermatidae