The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) of the Toarcian-Aalenian Boundary (Lower-Middle Jurassic)

S. Cresta; A. Goy; S. Ureta; C. Arias; E. Barrón; J. Bernad; M. L. Canales; F. García-Joral; E. García-Romero; P. R. Gialanella; J. J. Gómez; J. A. González; C. Herrero; G. Martínez; M. L. Osete; N. Perilli; J. J. Villalaín

doi:10.18814/epiiugs/2001/v24i3/003

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Episodes 2001; 24(3): 166-175

Published online September 1, 2001

https://doi.org/10.18814/epiiugs/2001/v24i3/003

The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) of the Toarcian-Aalenian Boundary (Lower-Middle Jurassic)

S. Cresta¹, A. Goy², S. Ureta², C. Arias², E. Barrón², J. Bernad², M. L. Canales², F. García-Joral², E. García-Romero², P. R. Gialanella², J. J. Gómez², J. A. González², C. Herrero², G. Martínez², M. L. Osete², N. Perilli², J. J. Villalaín²

¹Agenzia regionale Parchi del Lazio, Via Indonesia 33, 00144 Roma, Italy.
²Departamento de Paleontologia, Universidal Complutense de Madrid, 28048 Madrid, Spain.

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Abstract

The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the Aalenian Stage, formally deﬁned at the base of bed FZ107 in the Fuentelsaz section, Castilian Branch of the Iberian Range (Spain), has been ratiﬁed by the IUGS. Multidisciplinary biostratigraphical data, based on ammonites, brachiopods, ostracods, bivalves, foraminifera, calcareous nannofossils assemblages and palynomorphs, assure worldwide correlations; magnetostratigraphic data increase this correlation power. The position of the boundary coincides with the ﬁrst occurrence of the ammonite assemblage characterized by Leioceras opalinum and Leioceras lineatum and corresponds with a normal polarity interval correlated with the up-to-date Jurassic magnetic polarity time scale (Gradstein and others, 1994; Ogg, 1995).