Montral, Tarragona, Dasycladacean reef, Cataluna (Triassic of Spain)

Also known as Reef 2345

Where: Cataluña, Spain (41.3° N, 1.1° E: paleocoordinates 5.1° N, 14.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Muschelkalk Group, Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• Middle Ladinian; Upper Muschelkalk

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: C. Hemleben and D. Freels. 1977. Fossilführende dolomitisierte Plattenkalke aus dem Muschelkalk superior bei Montral (Prov. Tarragona, Spanien) [Fossiliferous dolomitized lithographic limestones from the Upper Muschelkalk near Montral (Prov. Tarragona, Spain)]. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 154(2):186-212 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67648: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.12.2006, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
unclassified
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Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Reimaniphylliidae
Retiophyllia sp. Cuif 1966 stony coral
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Rhynchonellata
 Thecideida -
Thecideida indet. Pajaud 1970
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
"Macrodon cf. beyrichi" = Parallelodon beyrichii
"Macrodon cf. beyrichi" = Parallelodon beyrichii Strombeck 1849 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya sp. Meek 1873 clam
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
 Ptenoglossa - Protoculidae
unclassified
  -
Nullipora
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"Diplopora ex gr. annulata" = Nullipora annulata
"Diplopora ex gr. annulata" = Nullipora annulata Schafhaeutl 1853