Moinho de Cotovio, Faro, Peral Beds, sponge biostrome (Jurassic of Portugal)

Also known as Reef 3481

Where: Portugal (37.1° N, 8.2° W: paleocoordinates 31.2° N, 0.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Peral Formation, Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: R. R. Leinfelder, M. Krautter, M. Nose, M. M. Ramalho, and W. Werner. 1993. Siliceous sponge facies from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 189:199-254 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68215: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.01.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Hydrozoa
  - Nigriporellidae
Tubiphytes sp. Maslov 1956
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
Hexactinellida
 Hexactinosa - Cribrospongiidae
"Tremadictyon reticulatum" = Cribrospongia reticulata, "Tremadictyon sp." = Cribrospongia
"Tremadictyon reticulatum" = Cribrospongia reticulata Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge
"Tremadictyon sp." = Cribrospongia d'Orbigny 1849 glass sponge
 Hexactinosa - Staurodermatidae
Stauroderma sp. Zittel 1877 glass sponge
 Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae
Craticularia parallela Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge
Demospongiae
 Spirosclerophorida - Platychoniidae