Where: Valenciana, Spain (40.6° N, 0.1° W: paleocoordinates 30.4° N, 9.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Arcillas de Morella Formation, Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)
• "lower Bedoulian", bed at top of section
•
•Villanueva-Amadoz et al. 2015: A Barremian age for this formation is established by its position below the Barremian – Aptian boundary, recently located based on ammonoids in the overlying Forcall Formation from the same sub-basin.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; grainstone and micaceous, white sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Collected in the 1980s
Primary reference: J. V. Santafé, M. L. Casanovas, J. L. Sanz and Y. S. Calzada. 1982. Geologia y Paleontologia (Dinosaurios) de las Capas rojas de Morella (Castellón, España) [Geology and paleontology (Dinosauria) of the Capas Rojas of Morella (Castellón, Spain)]. Diputación Provincial de Castellón y Diputación de Barcelona 1-169 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 45161: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.10.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Ceratostreon sp. Bayle 1878 oyster | |
Astarte obovata Sowerby 1822 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Glauconia sp. Stoliczka 1868 snail |