Where: Portugal (37.1° N, 8.7° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 10.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lagos Biocalcarenite Member (Partimao Formation), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. M. da Silva, M. Cachão, A. C. Rebelo, M. E. Johnson, B. G. Baarli, A. Santos, and E. J. Mayoral. 2019. Paleoenvironment and taphonomy of lower Miocene bivalve and macroid assemblages: the Lagos Biocalcarenite (Lagos‑Portimão Formation, southern Portugal). Facies [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 198864: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 16.01.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Protoma sp. Baird 1870 turret shell | |
Nassarius sp. Duméril 1806 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster | |
Veneridae indet. Rafinesque 1815 venus clam | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinolampas sp. Gray 1825 sea urchin |