Ardanatz village, outcrop AD2.1, Ardanatz Sandstone Fm: Bartonian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Cibicididae
Cibicididae indet. Cushman 1927
14 %-specimens
Cibicides lobatulus
2 %-specimens
Cibicides tenuimago
4 %-specimens
Cibicidoides spp.
10 %-specimens
Cibicidoides ungerianus
3 %-specimens
Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Anomalinidae
Anomalinoides spp.
7 %-specimens
Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Discorbidae
Eponides navarroensis
0.5 %-specimens
Eponides ouachitaensis
1.5 %-specimens
Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Cancrisidae
Gyroidinoides spp.
6 %-specimens
original and current combination Valvalabamina
Lituolida - Lituolidae
Ammobaculites spp.
4 %-specimens
Gaudryina abuillonensis
2 %-specimens
Buliminidae
Buliminidae indet.
13 %-specimens
Nodosariata - Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Nodosariidae indet. Ehrenberg 1838
Nodosariata - Nodosariida - Stilostomellidae
Stilostomellidae indet. Finlay 1947
Spiroplectamminidae
Spiroplectammina alansis
5 %-specimens
Trochamminidae
Trochamminidae indet. Schwager 1877
6 %-specimens
Rotaliidae
Oridorsalis spp.
4 %-specimens
Siphoninidae
Siphonina spp.
4 %-specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Ceratotrochus bodellei
10 %-specimens
Hexactinellida - Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae
Laocoetis samueli
abundant specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain County:Ardanatz
Coordinates: 42.8° North, 1.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.9° North, 4.8° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Bartonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Bartonian
Age range of interval:41.20000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ardanatz Sandstone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: silty marl
Lithology description: Silty marls
Environment:deep subtidal indet.
Geology comments: corals lived in shallower areas than sponges and that they were transported from shallower environments (by removal, reworking processes). there was a continuous facies transition from the most proximal Ardanatz delta-front facies into the most distal/marginal outer-platform to upper-slope Ilundain Marl facies.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:141920
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Modifier:M. Krause Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-04-03 01:15:20 Last modified:2013-04-05 04:38:33
Access level:authorizer only Released:2013-07-03 01:15:20
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

46101. H. Astibia, J. Elorza, A. Pisera, G. Alvarez-Perez, A. Payros and S. Ortiz. 2013. Sponges and corals from the Middle Eocene (Bartonian) marly formations of the Pamplona Basin (Navarre, western Pyrenees): taphonomy, taxonomy, and paleoenvironments. Facies [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]