ammonites
Section Y.Mv - Bed 235, Cortijo de Miravetes, Rio Argos, Caravaca, Murcia (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Spain (38.1° N, 1.9° W: paleocoordinates 29.8° N, 6.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Miravetes Formation, Berriasian (145.5 - 140.2 Ma)

• T. alpillensis ammonite subzone, A. infracretacea nannofossil subzone, Calpionellopsis calpionellid zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified marl

• rhythmic alternation of marly limestone beds (5-70 cm thick) and marly interbeds (varying between a few cm and several m thick)

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: R. Aguado, M. Company, and J. M. Tavera. 2000. The Berriasian/Valanginian boundary in the Mediterranean region: new data from the Caravaca and Cehegin sections, SE Spain. Cretaceous Research 21:1-21 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64957: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.09.2006