Aldeia de Juzo, Sintra area, level 8c: Valanginian, Portugal

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Pycnodus sp. Agassiz 1833
Gastropoda - Purpurinidae
Leviathania leviathan
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Nerineidae
Nerinea guinchoensis
Bivalvia
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815
see common names

Geography
Country:Portugal
Coordinates: 38.7° North, 9.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.8° North, 0.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:hand sample
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Valanginian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 1
Key time interval:Valanginian
Age range of interval:139.80000 - 132.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Aldeia de Juzo Local bed:8c
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 4 m
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:yellow lithified sandy "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:difficult macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:65680
Authorizer:L. Villier Enterer:L. Villier
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-09-24 09:23:56 Last modified:2006-09-24 12:23:56
Access level:the public Released:2006-09-24 09:23:55
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
18719. J. Rey. 1972. Recherches géologiques sur le Crétacé inférieur de l'Estremadura (Portugal). Serviços Geologicos de Portugal 21:1-477 [L. Villier/L. Villier]