Fonteta section (Can Barrabàs) - top of the section, Emporda area (Eocene of Spain)

Where: Spain (42.0° N, 3.2° E: paleocoordinates 38.8° N, 0.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tavertet/Girona Limestone Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• Early Lutetian.

•Biostratigraphic Unit: SBZ 13.

•Unconformity-Bounded Unit: 1st Lutetian Cycle.

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; packstone and grainstone

• protected shelf facies
• packstone and grainstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. Serra-Kiel, E. Mató, E. Saula, A. Travé, C. Ferràndez-Canadell, P. Busquets, J. M. Samsó, J. Tosquella, A. A. Barnolas, G. Pérez, J. Franquès and J. Romero. 2003. An inventory of the marine and transitional Middle/Upper Eocene deposits of the Southeastern Pyrenean Foreland Basin (NE Spain). Geologica Acta 1(2):201-229 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 165183: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 14.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Soritidae
 Miliolida - Alveolinidae
 Miliolida - Hauerinidae