Navarra - Erice (Paleocene of Spain)

Where: Santander, Spain (42.9° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 2.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Cabo de Lata Formation, Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• Strongly affected by strike slip faulting

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• series of marly limestones and marls containing amonites

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Reposited in the BMNH

• Echinodids only, collected from Erice of the Navarra collection

Primary reference: A. B. Smith, J. Gallemí, C. H. Jeffery, G. Ernst, and P. D. Ward. 1999. Late Cretaceous-early Tertiary echinoids from northern Spain: implications for the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Geology) 55(2):81-137 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157045: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Shaun Mahmood on 04.06.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Echinoidea
 Holasteroida -
Coraster vilanovae Cotteau 1886 sea urchin
 Holasteroida - Holasteridae
 Spatangoida - Brissidae
Cyclaster grindrei heart urchin