Estremadura, Neorbitolinopsis conulus zone (Cretaceous of Portugal)

Where: Portugal (38.8° N, 9.5° W: paleocoordinates 28.2° N, 5.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Neorbitolinopsis conulus zone, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; marl

• marnes et de calcaires micritiques à Ostreidgs;
• marl, micrit

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. R. Bilotte and B. Peybernes. 1977. Analyse biostratigraphique et paléontologique de l'albien marin d'Estremadura (Portugal). Geobios (10)369-393 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 145814: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 12.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Foraminifera
 Orbitolinacea - Orbitolinidae
 Textulariina - Cuneolinidae
 Loftusiacea - Cyclamminidae
  -
 Biokovinacea - Charentiidae
Charentia cuvillieri Neumann 1965
Echinoidea
 Euechinoidea - Pseudodiadematidae
 Calycina - Diplopodiidae
 Spatangoida - Toxasteridae
Heteraster delgadoi heart urchin
 Euechinoidea - Pedinopsidae
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Knemiceratidae
Knemiceras uhligi Choffat 1886 ammonite