Sample 6A, section X.HA (Cortijo del Hielo): Barremian, Spain
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Coccolithophyceae
- Podorhabdales
- Cretarhabdaceae
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Flabellites oblongus
(Bukry 1969)
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Coccolithophyceae
- Podorhabdales
- Biscutaceae
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Crucibiscutum hayi
(Black 1973)
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Coccolithophyceae
- Braarudosphaeraceae
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Braarudosphaera cf. africana
Stradner 1961
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Micrantholithus stellatus
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Coccolithophyceae
- Braarudosphaerales
- Polycyclolithaceae
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Hayesites irregularis
(Thierstein et al. 1972)
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Spain | State/province: | Granada |
Coordinates: | 37.9° North, 2.6° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 28.7° North, 6.4° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
Stage: | Barremian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 2 |
Key time interval: | Barremian | ||
Age range of interval: | 125.77000 - 121.40000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Local section: | X.HA | Local bed: | 12 m | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: No lithostratigraphic unit names mentioned in text or figures. From Sarasani ammonite Biozone of the middle Barremian. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | marl |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: Lithology consists of rhymically alternating marly limestone beds 5 to 70cm thick, and marly interbeds up to several metres thick. | |
Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Geology comments: Pelagic section in the External Zone of the Betic Cordillera of Spain. |
Taphonomy
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some microfossils |
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Collection method comments: Detailed sampling was carried out by authors for this study. No repository is listed, but presumably specimens reside with the authors at either Escuela Universitaria or Universidad de Granada. | |
Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive for ammonites, while some calcareous nannofossils are listed. |
Metadata
Database number: | 50380 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | micropaleontology |
Created: | 2005-05-14 13:30:06 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-05-14 13:30:06 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
13528. | R. Aguado, M. Company, J. Sandoval and J.M. Taver. 1997. Biostratigraphic events at the Barremian/Aptian boundary in the Betic Cordillera, southern Spain. Cretaceous Research 18:309-329 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/J. Alroy] |