Paul Spur (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Reef 1295

Where: Arizona (31.4° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 31.7° N, 67.3° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mural Limestone Formation, Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Zoned reef with reef core and flank beds.

•Diverse reef assemblage.

•Microsolena-stromatolite framework. Corals are mainly laminar.

•Caprinids and monopleurids behind the main framework.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: R. W. Scott. 1979. Depositional model of Early Cretaceous coral-algal-rudist reefs, Arizona. AAPG Bulletin 63(7):1108-1127 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24042: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 29.07.2002, edited by Uta Merkel

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Few details provided
Lithocodium
  -
Lithocodium sp.3 Elliott 1956
unclassified
  -
Foraminifera
 Orbitolinacea - Orbitolinidae
Rhodophyceae
  - Gymnocodiaceae
Permocalculus sp. Elliott 1955
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Polystrata alba3 Pfender 1936
Calcarea
 Calcaronea - Stellispongiidae
"Lymnorella encrusta n. sp." = Mammillopora encrusta2
"Lymnorella encrusta n. sp." = Mammillopora encrusta2 Rigby and Scott 1981 calcareous sponge
Anthozoa
 Helioporacea -
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Actinastrea sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral
Pioneer community
 Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Calamophylliopsis sandbergeri1 Felix 1891 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Eugyridae
"Felixigyra sp." = Eugyra (Felixigyra)3
"Felixigyra sp." = Eugyra (Felixigyra)3 Prever 1909 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Microsolena texana3 Wells 1932 stony coral
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Requieniidae
Toucasia hancockensis3 Whitney 1952 rudist
 Hippuritida - Caprinuloideidae
Coalcomana ramosa3 Boehm 1898 rudist
 Hippuritida - Monopleuridae
"Petalodontia felixi" = Pseudopetalodontia felixi3 Douvillé 1900 rudist
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835