Alcabideche, Marnes à bancs calcaires (Cretaceous of Portugal)

Where: Portugal (38.7° N, 9.4° W: paleocoordinates 32.0° N, 1.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Les calcaires à choffatelles et dasycladacées Formation, Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• 86m

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified marl and lithified grainstone

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. Rey. 1972. Recherches géologiques sur le Crétacé inférieur de l'Estremadura (Portugal). Serviços Geologicos de Portugal 21:1-477 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 73204: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 06.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Brachycytheridae
Macrodentina sp. n. sp. ostracod
Lithocodium aggregatum
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Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Archaeolithothamnium sp. Rothpletz 1891
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales -
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Foraminifera
 Involutinina - Involutinidae
 Lituolacea - Mayncinidae
 Textulariina - Cuneolinidae
 Loftusiacea - Cyclamminidae
Choffatella decipiens Schlumberger 1905
 Textulariina - Nezzazatidae