ammonites
Orcau 2 (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Lleida, Spain (42.2° N, 1.0° E: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 2.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tremp Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• "c. 30 m above the contact of the Tremp Formation with the underlying Aren Sandstone"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; green marl

• "a greenish marly bed rich in bivalve moulds, which lies just above a conspicuous level comprising rudist shells of Praeradiolites bucheroni in life position"

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: J. Kriwet, R. Soler-Gijón, and N. López-Martínez. 2007. Neoselachians from the upper Campanian and lower Maatrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of the southern Pyrenees, northern Spain. Palaeontology 50(5):1051-1071 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76212: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 16.11.2007