Lower Reef, Cati, Maestrazgo (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as Reef 3364

Where: Spain (40.5° N, 0.1° E: paleocoordinates 30.4° N, 9.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Llacova Formation, Hauterivian (132.9 - 129.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Reef A (lower reef). This is about 2 m thick and pinches out laterally, comprising a horizontal extent of about 20 m.

•The reefs consist of corals and microbialite (mainly thrombolite)

•as the main constructors. In both reef units, thrombolites

•formed subsequently, overlying a first layer of

•encrusters that settled directly on the corals. Encrusters comprise

•algae, foraminifera, bryozoans and serpulid polychaetes,

•but small lithistid, chaetetid and stromatoporoid sponges are

•also frequent.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, peel or thin section,

• Focus on corals

Primary reference: S. Götz, H. Löser, and D. U. Schmid. 2005. Reef development on a deepening platform: two Early Cretaceous coralgal patch reefs (Cati, Llacova Formation, eastern Spain) compared. Cretaceous Research 26:864-881 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 56707: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 23.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Kymalithon sp. Lemoine and Emberger 1967
 Sporolithales - Corallinophycidae
Foraminifera
 Lituolacea - Haplophragmoiidae
Placopsilina sp. d'Orbigny 1850
 Hormosinacea - Telamminidae
Lithocodium aggregatum
  -
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella irregularis Radoicic 1959
unclassified
  -
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Boring sponges
Demospongiae
 Tabulospongida -
Tabulospongida indet. Hartmann and Goreau 1975 demosponge
listed as "calcareous chaetetid sponges"
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Comoseriidae
Polyphylloseris sp. Fromentel 1857 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
"Stylina parvistella" = Stylina inwaldensis
"Stylina parvistella" = Stylina inwaldensis Ogilvie 1897 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Cladophylliidae
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Dimorphocoenia cf. crassisepta d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Heterocoeniidae
Latusastrea irregularis Toula 1884 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Mesomorpha sp. Pratz 1883 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Holocoenia jaccardi, "Actinastrea pattoni" = Stelidioseris pattoni
Holocoenia jaccardi Koby 1897 stony coral
"Actinastrea pattoni" = Stelidioseris pattoni Wells 1933 stony coral
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Diastoporidae
"Berenicea" sp. Lamouroux 1821
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Boring bivalves
Wetheredellidae
  - Wetheredellidae
Koskinobullina socialis Cherchi and Schroeder 1979