Praia da Adraga, Almoçageme, level 8: Valanginian, Portugal

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea
Echinoidea indet. (Leske 1778)
Ostracoda - Podocopida
Fabanella cf. polita
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Asciocythere sp.
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina sp. Bruguière 1797
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Nerineidae
Nerinea guinchoensis
Cyclamminidae
Choffatella sp. Schlumberger 1905
Lituolida - Haplophragmoididae
Haplophragmoides sp. Cushman 1910
see common names

Geography
Country:Portugal
Coordinates: 38.8° North, 9.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.9° 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:Praia da Adraga Local bed:8
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 4 m
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray 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:65708
Authorizer:L. Villier Enterer:L. Villier
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-09-25 01:04:45 Last modified:2006-09-25 04:04:46
Access level:the public Released:2006-09-25 01:04:44
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]