Portugal E6/29: Kimmeridgian, Portugal

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Cidaroida
Cidaroida indet. (Claus 1880)
1 individual
spine
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Praeexogyra pustulosa
21 individuals
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
11 individuals
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
Isognomon rugosus
12 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Juranomia calcibyssata
109 individuals
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Arcomytilus morrisi
1 individual
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
1 individual
A [originally entered as "Gastropoda informal sp."]
see common names

Geography
Country:Portugal
Coordinates: 39.1° North, 9.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.4° North, 1.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
*Period:Late/Upper Jurassic *Epoch:Malm
*International age/stage:Late/Upper Kimmeridge
Key time interval:Kimmeridgian
Age range of interval:154.80000 - 149.20000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sobral
Local section:E6 Local bed:29
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal unlithified silty marl
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: lenticular shell bed, matrix: silty marl
Environment:estuary/bay Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Geology comments: brackish bay
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:8042
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:H. Eichiner
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-06-15 03:39:34 Last modified:2017-07-28 17:37:13
Access level:the public Released:2000-06-15 03:39:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

41. F. T. Fürsich. 1999. Unpublished data. [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/P. Wagner]