Barrios de Villadiego section, benthic forams, 90 m (Jurassic of Spain)

Where: Spain (42.6° N, 4.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 28.5° N, 20.8° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Bajocian (171.6 - 168.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified marl

• inner ramp setting

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, sieve,

Primary reference: K.-U. Gräfe. 2005. Benthic foraminifers and palaeoenvironment in the Lower and Middle Jurassic of the Western Basque-Cantabrian Basin (Northern Spain). Journal of Iberian Geology 31(2):217-233 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 73788: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Gaudryina sp. d'Orbigny 1839
Textularia sp. Defrance 1824
 Involutinina - Trocholinidae
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"Marginulina spinata" = Cristellaria (Marginulina)
"Marginulina spinata" = Cristellaria (Marginulina)
Nodosariata
 Vaginulinida - Lagenidae
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
 Polymorphinida - Polymorphinidae
 Robertinida - Ceratobuliminidae
 Robertinida - Epistominidae