L’Arginent (Eocene of Spain)

Where: Alicante, Spain (38.5° N, 0.2° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 3.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• no specific geological or stratigraphic works have been published on this particular outcrop; age based on associated microfossils

Environment/lithology: marine; marl

• clayey marls, biocalcarenites and levels of fossiliferous limestones,

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: À Ossó. 2019. New species of Kromtitis Müller, 1984 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Dynomenidae) from the Eocene of Iberian Peninsula. Palaeontologia Electronica (22.2.47A)1-9 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 207104: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 23.12.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Camarodonta - Glyphocyphidae
 Salenioida - Saleniidae
Salenia garciae sea urchin
 Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Linthia macphersoni heart urchin
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Ditremaster nux heart urchin
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Calappidae
Calappilia cf. scopuli Quayle and Collins 1981 box crab
 Decapoda - Raninidae
Lophoranina straeleni Via 1959 crab
 Decapoda - Dromiidae
"Dromilites pastoris" = Basidromilites pastoris
"Dromilites pastoris" = Basidromilites pastoris Via 1959 crab
 Decapoda - Dynomenidae
Kromtitis lluisprietoi n. sp. Ossó 2019 crab
Foraminifera
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae