S'Picoto, Arruda Subbasin, Amaral Formation, Lisboa (Jurassic of Portugal)

Also known as Reef 2746

Where: Portugal (39.0° N, 9.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.3° N, 1.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: "Coralico" Member (Amaral Formation), Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• marly coral-microbial crust biostrome

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Nose. 1995. Vergleichende Faziesanalyse und Palökologie korallenreicher Verflachungsabfolgen des iberischen Oberjura [Comparative facies analysis and palaeoecology of coral-bearing shallowing-upwards successions from the Upper Jurassic of Iberia]. Profil 8:1-237 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68803: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.02.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Axosmiliidae
Axosmilia crassa Milaschewitsch 1876 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Thamnasteria concinna Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Comoseridae
Microsolena sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
Microsolena agariciformis Étallon 1859 stony coral
Comoseris cf. frondescens Koby 1904 stony coral
Comoseris cf. meandrinoides Michelin 1843 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Dimorphastrea cf. heteromorpha Quenstedt 1858 stony coral
Ovalastrea plicata Koby 1904 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
"Dendrohelia ursicina" = Stylohelia ursicina, Stylosmilia sp.
"Dendrohelia ursicina" = Stylohelia ursicina Koby 1889 stony coral
Stylosmilia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Calamophylliopsis sp. Alloiteau 1952 stony coral
Calamophylliopsis flabellum de Blainville 1830 stony coral