Mexilhoeira, Cascais area, level 4b: Hauterivian, Portugal

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Holectypoida - Holectypidae
Holectypus almeidae
Echinoidea - Disasteridae
Collyropsis ovulum
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815
Lituolida - Lituolidae
Textulariidae indet. Ehrenberg 1838
Nodosariata - Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804
see common names

Geography
Country:Portugal
Coordinates: 38.7° North, 9.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.4° North, 1.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:hand sample
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Hauterivian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 2
Key time interval:Hauterivian
Age range of interval:132.60000 - 125.77000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Mexilhoeira Local bed:4b
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 1.5 m
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:dolomitic,yellow lithified "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:65743
Authorizer:L. Villier Enterer:L. Villier
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-09-25 02:31:14 Last modified:2006-09-25 05:31:14
Access level:the public Released:2006-09-25 02:31:13
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]