Jumilla area, Murcia (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Spain (38.5° N, 1.3° W: paleocoordinates 28.6° N, 8.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Aptian (121.4 - 122.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified carbonate

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. P. Masse, C. Arias, and L. Vilas. 1998. Lower Cretaceous Rudist faunas of Southeast Spain: an overview. GĂ©obios 22:193-210 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64389: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Foraminifera
 Loftusiacea - Cyclamminidae
Choffatella decipiens Schlumberger 1905
 Orbitolinacea - Orbitolinidae
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Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Requieniidae
Requienia sp. Matheron 1842 rudist
 Hippuritida - Polyconitidae
Horiopleura sp. Douvillé 1889 rudist
Horiopleura gr. dumortieri-baylei
 Hippuritida - Caprinidae