Tranco de Beas, Sample AL171, Hornos-Siles Formation: Ladinian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya cf. elongata (Schlotheim 1822)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Carditida - Myophoricardiidae
Pseudocorbula gregaria (Münster 1838)
61 specimens
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
Costatoria goldfussi (Alberti 1830)
21 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Bakevellia costata (Schlotheim 1820)
2 specimens
Gervillia joleaudi Schmidt 1935
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Hunanopectinidae
Leptochondria alberti (Goldfuss 1838)
1 specimen
recombined as Leptochondria albertii
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Prospondylidae
Enantiostreon flabellum
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis teruelensis
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Andalucia
Coordinates: 38.2° North, 2.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:2.9° North, 11.2° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Middle Triassic
Stage:Ladinian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 2
Key time interval:Ladinian
Age range of interval:242.00000 - 237.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Hornos-Siles
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Ladinian.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: packstone
Secondary lithology: marl
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Fossiliferous limestone, nodular, intensively bioturbated, alternating towards the top with an increasing amount of marls and claystones. Biogenic packstones and grainstones are dominant.
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Geology comments: Internal shallow marine platform.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Rock censused:280 cm2 (area)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:44846
Authorizer:D. Bottjer Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-09-17 14:33:24 Last modified:2013-09-01 11:48:17
Access level:the public Released:2004-09-17 14:33:24
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11695. A. Marquez-Aliaga, F. Hirsch, and A. Lopez-Garrido. 1986. Middle Triassic bivalves from the Hornos-Siles Formation (Sephardic Province, Spain). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 173(2):201-227 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]