Elche town (Miocene of Spain)
Where: Alicante, Spain (38.3° N, 0.7° W: paleocoordinates 38.2° N, 2.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; reef rocks
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: J. C. Braga and J. Aguirre. 1995. Taxonomy of fossil coralline algal species: Neogene Lithophylloideae (Rhodophyta, Corallinaceae) from southern Spain. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 86:265-285 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 137740: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 18.12.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• This study describes coralline algae
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| Florideophyceae | |
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Lithophyllum nitorum Adey and Adey 1973
Lithophyllum incrustans Philippi 1837 | |