Mas Romeu (0.0 m) (Cretaceous of Spain)

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

• "sandstones and whitish sandstones, micaceous, with cross-bedding, laterally passing to calcarenites and marls with [invertebrate] fauna."

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

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Ceratostreon sp. Bayle 1878 oyster
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte obovata Sowerby 1822 clam
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassiopidae
Glauconia sp. Stoliczka 1868 snail