Where: Spain (37.0° N, 2.2° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 2.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tortonian to Tortonian (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified grainstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. P. Jimenez and J. C. Braga. 1993. Occurence and taphonomy of bivalves from the Nijar reef (Messinian, Late Miocene, SE Spain). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 102:239-251 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 69789: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.03.2007