Guincho, level 8: Barremian, Portugal

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chlorophyceae - Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Cylindroporella sugdeni Elliott 1957
Chlorophyceae - Dasycladales
Acicularia comanchense
Actinoporella podolica
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
Nodosariata - Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804
Lituolida - Lituolidae
Ammobaculites sp. Cushman 1910
Cyclamminidae
Choffatella decipiens Schlumberger 1905
Mayncinidae
"Mayncina" sp.
Cuneolinidae
Pseudotextulariella scarsellai
Cyanophyceae
Cayeuxia sp. Frollo 1938
Echinoidea
Trochotiara sculptilis
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Nerineidae
Nerineidae indet. Zittel 1873
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra tuberculifera Koch and Dunker 1837
recombined as Ceratostreon tuberculiferum
see common names

Geography
Country:Portugal
Coordinates: 38.7° North, 9.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.1° North, 1.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:hand sample
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
Formation:calcaires à Choffatelles et Dasycladacées
Local section:Guincho Local bed:8
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 25m
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray lithified grainstone
Secondary lithology: poorly lithified marl
Includes fossils?Y
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:73167
Authorizer:L. Villier Enterer:L. Villier
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-06-06 00:00:52 Last modified:2007-06-06 03:00:52
Access level:the public Released:2007-06-06 00:00:52
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]