Also known as Salmanha, West Portuguese Carbonate Platform

Where: Região do Centro, Portugal (40.1° N, 8.8° W: paleocoordinates 30.3° N, 5.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Middle lower Turonian coarse bioclastic limestones of Salmanha

Environment/lithology: platform or shelf-margin reef; lithified, calcareous limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Hannes Löser, Pedro M. Callapez

Primary reference: H. Löser and P. M. Callapez. 2022. Upper Cenomanian and lower Turonian (Cretaceous) corals from the Tethyan West Portuguese Carbonate Platform. Journal of Iberian Geology [P. Mannion/L. Jones]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 224528: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Lewis Jones on 14.03.2022

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