Where: Valenciana, Spain (39.7° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 30.8° N, 7.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)

• "Wealdian" age, unknown formation; also described as "Purbeckian" (then = Tithonian)

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•From Campos-Soto et al. 2016: Specifically, the studied deposits crop out in the NW area of the basin, near Benagéber town (NW of Valencia province; Fig. 1) and correspond to the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous Higueruelas, Villar del Arzobispo and Aldea de Cortés Fms (Fig. 2A). The presence of Alveosepta in the Villar del Arzobispo Fm suggests that at least part of this unit is Kimmeridgian, unlike the previously assigned Late Tithonian-Middle Berriasian age. Consequently, the underlying Higueruelas Fm, previously considered Tithonian, should not be younger than Kimmeridgian. Accordingly, sedimentation of the Aldea de Cortés Fm, previously considered Valanginian-Hauterivian, probably started during the Tithonian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by J. M. Catalá, F. Beltrán, J. Royo y Gómez in 1914–1927

Primary reference: J. Royo y Goméz. 1926. [Cuenta de los resultados que ha obtenido en algunos estudios paleontólogicos que está realizando] [Account of some results obtained in certain paleontological studies]. Boletin de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 26(1):162 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 61316: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.06.2006

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