Figols-Castigaleu sequence A2, facies 1, sample 3 (Eocene of Spain)

Where: Spain (42.3° N, 0.7° W: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 2.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• late Ypresian: chrons C23r through C22n and NP zones 12 and 13

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: interdistributary bay; poorly lithified mudstone and poorly lithified sandstone

• shown on figure as facies M2, which consists of "Mudstones and fine-grained sandstones... Bioturbated... Tidal flat, interdistributary bay": shown on supplemental figure as mostly mangrove

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk

Primary reference: S. Dominici and T. Kowalke. 2007. Depositional dynamics and the record of ecosystem stability: early Eocene faunal gradients in the Pyrenean foreland, Spain. Palaios 22(3):268-284 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75320: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 08.10.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Pseudamauridae indet.
listed as large Pseudamauridae
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Crommium intermedia Deshayes 1832 moon snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Sigmesalia fasciata Lamarck 1804 turret shell
 Cerithioidea - Diastomatidae
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
? Tylochilus multigranosus horn snail
listed as Tylochilus? multigranosus
 Cerithioidea - Brachytrematidae
"Benoistea pyramidata" = Benoistia, "Benoistea vidali" = Benoistia
"Benoistea pyramidata" = Benoistia snail
listed as Benoistia pyramidata
"Benoistea vidali" = Benoistia snail
listed as Benoistia vidali
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
"Bittium" plicatulum cerith snail
listed as "Bittium" plicatulum"
 Cerithioidea - Batillariidae
Granulolabium (Granulolabium) figarolense snail
listed as Granulolabium (G.) figarolense
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Bicorbula sp., "Varicorbula sp." = Corbula (Varicorbula)
Bicorbula sp. Fischer 1887 clam
"Varicorbula sp." = Corbula (Varicorbula) Grant and Gale 1931 clam