Barrios de Villadiego section, benthic forams, 45 m (Jurassic of Spain)

Where: Spain (42.6° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.0° N, 9.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Toarcian (180.1 - 175.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified marl

• inner ramp setting

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, sieve,

Primary reference: K.-U. Gräfe. 2005. Benthic foraminifers and palaeoenvironment in the Lower and Middle Jurassic of the Western Basque-Cantabrian Basin (Northern Spain). Journal of Iberian Geology 31(2):217-233 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 73785: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Nodosariata
 Polymorphinida - Polymorphinidae
 Robertinida - Ceratobuliminidae
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
 Vaginulinida - Lagenidae
Foraminifera
 Rotaliina - Bolivinidae
 Trochamminacea - Trochamminidae
  -
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Textularia sp. Defrance 1824
Gaudryina sp. d'Orbigny 1839
 Involutinina - Trocholinidae