Fonteta section (Can Ametller), 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)

• Chronostratigraphic Unit: Early and Middle Lutetian.

•Biostratigraphic Unit: SBZ 13, SBZ 14 and SBZ 15.

•Unconformity-Bounded Units:1st, 2nd and 3rd Lutetian Cycles.

•Banyoles MarlFormation / Bracons Formation

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; packstone and grainstone

• ochre sandstone, interpreted as a transitional facies from the base of the 1st cycle. Above, bioclastic packstone and grainstone, with siliciclastic extraclasts in the initial metres, and a biocalcarenitic layer, intensively burrowed and with ferruginous concretions on top, are interpreted as a protected shelf facies from the 1st and 2nd cycles bounded in its upper part by a condensation level.

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 165184: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 14.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Soritidae
 Miliolida - Alveolinidae
 Miliolida - Hauerinidae
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin