Northern shore of the Cíjara dam (Ediacaran of Spain)

Also known as Reef 4287; Northern shore of the Cíjara dam, Villarta Fm, lower Villarta Mmb

Where: Spain (39.3° N, 4.8° W: paleocoordinates 31.0° S, 100.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Villarta Formation), Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)

• Latest Ediacaran

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Bioherms, shelly-microbial buildups

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. J. Alvaro and I. Cortijo. 2019. Cloudina-microbial reef resilience to substrate instability in a Cadomian retroarc basin of the Iberian Peninsula. Precambrian Research [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 205645: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 17.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cloudina
  - Cloudinidae
Cloudina carinata Cortijo et al. 2010
Cloudina hartmanae
  - Cloudinidae
Cloudina
  - Cloudinidae
Coleolidae
  - Coleolidae
Sinotubulites baimatuoensis Chen et al. 1981
Protolagena
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Protolagena sp. Zhang and Li 1991