Where: Spain (41.9° N, 2.2° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 1.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: La Guixa Member (Vic Marls Formation), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• second Bartonian cycle, transgressive phase
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. Pisera and P. Busquets. 2002. Eocene siliceous sponges from the Ebro Basin (Catalonia, Spain). GĂ©obios 35(3):321-346 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 61240: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.06.2006, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hexactinellida | |
Callicylix eocenicus Pisera and Busquets 2002 glass sponge
Brachiolites munterensis glass sponge | |
Hexactinella informis glass sponge | |
Guettardiscyphia thiolati Archiac 1846 glass sponge | |
Reguantella cavernosa glass sponge | |
Mammalia | |
? Prototherium sp., "Prototherium solei n. sp." = Prototherium intermedium
? Prototherium sp. de Zigno 1887 dugong
"Prototherium solei n. sp." = Prototherium intermedium Bizzotto 1983 dugong |