Rasal locality, Ainsa-Jaca Basin, Sandstones facies (Eocene of Spain)

Where: Spain (42.4° N, 0.6° W: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 3.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Arguis Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Lower Priabonian

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; sandstone

• Very well-bedded sandstones, with variable bed thickness (from 5 cm up to 1 m), locally occur interbedded within the blue marly clays, but also at the base or lapping onto the flanks of the coral buildups.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Morsilli, F. R. Bosellini, L. Pomar, P. Hallock, and M. C. A. Aurell Papazzoni. 2012. Mesophotic coral buildups in a prodelta setting (Late Eocene, southern Pyrenees, Spain): a mixed carbonate–siliciclastic system. Sedimentology (59)766-794 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 152586: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 26.11.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Asterigerinacea - Amphisteginidae
Amphistegina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Nummulites sp. Lamarck 1801
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831