Santa Cruz Cliff, oyster patch reefs, Lisboa (Jurassic of Portugal)

Also known as Reef 2764

Where: Portugal (39.1° N, 9.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 1.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• 2 levels of small patch reefs (maximum diameter 2 m, height between 60 and 80 cm) occur scattered within marly silts.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. T. Fürsich. 1981. Salinity-controlled benthic associations from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal. Lethaia 14:203-223 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68232: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.01.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Echinoidea
 Euechinoidea - Hemicidaridae
Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
sp. B
Bivalvia
 Heteroconchia -
Heterodonta indet. Neumayr 1884 clam
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Trichites sp. Lhuyd 1760 oyster
 Ostreida - Malleidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Nanogyra nana" = Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana Sowerby 1822 oyster
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Lithophaga sp. Röding 1798 mussel