Calhau do Corvo, Sintra Massif, calcaires récifaux, Level 6: Hauterivian, Portugal

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
Nodosariata - Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804
Cyclamminidae
Choffatella decipiens Schlumberger 1905
Lituolida - Ammobaculinidae
Haplophragmium sp.
Lituolida - Lituolidae
Textulariidae indet. Ehrenberg 1838
Ulvophyceae - Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Boueina sp. Toula 1883
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra tuberculifera Koch and Dunker 1837
recombined as Ceratostreon tuberculiferum
Echinoidea - Nucleolitidae
Phyllobrissus aff. nicoleti
Phyllobrissus gresslyi (Agassiz 1839)
Nucleolites teixeirae n. sp.
cf. Plagiochasma excentricum
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Toxasteridae
Heteraster sabugensis
Heteraster corvensis
Toxaster retusus (Lamarck 1816)
see common names

Geography
Country:Portugal
Coordinates: 38.8° North, 9.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.5° 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
Formation:Calcaires récifaux
Local section:Calhau do Corvo Local bed:6
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 25 m
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:deformed bedding,gray lithified calcareous marl
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:65876
Authorizer:L. Villier Enterer:L. Villier
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-09-26 02:04:48 Last modified:2006-09-26 05:04:48
Access level:the public Released:2006-09-26 02:04:47
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]