Cariatiz section - Framework blocks and coral brecci facies, Fringing Reef Unit (Miocene of Spain)

Where: Spain (37.1° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° N, 2.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Azagador Member, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• Lower Messinian

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks

• Framework blocks and coral breccias derived from the framework upslope. Coralline algae occur as rhodoliths made up of encrusting and warty thalli, crusts on coral clasts, fragments dispersed in the breccia matrix, and rhodoliths and crusts inside framework blocks. Except for the latter, it is quite difcult to ascertain whether the coralline algae grew on the slope or fell downslope from higher settings prior to or after their death.

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. C. Braga and J. Aguirre. 2001. Coralline algal assemblages in upper Neogene reef and temperate carbonates in Southern Spain. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (175)27-41 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 147446: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 08.07.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
unclassified
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Mollusca indet.
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp.
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Florideophyceae
  - Corallinophycidae
Phymatolithon sp., Lithoporella sp., Lithophyllum byssoides, "Lithophyllum pustulatum" = Titanoderma pustulatum, Neogoniolithon sp., Spongites sp.
Phymatolithon sp. Foslie 1898
Lithoporella sp. Foslie 1909
"Lithophyllum pustulatum" = Titanoderma pustulatum Lamouroux 1816
Neogoniolithon sp. Setchell and Mason 1943
Spongites sp. Kützing 1841