Conceicao, Faro, Peral Beds (Jurassic of Portugal)

Where: Portugal (37.2° N, 7.6° W: paleocoordinates 31.0° N, 1.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, sandy marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Rosendahl. 1985. Die oberjurassische Korallenfazies von Algarve (Südportugal) [The Upper Jurassic coral facies of Algarve (Southern Portugal)]. Arbeiten aus dem Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie an der Universität Stuttgart 82:1-125 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68611: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.01.2007

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Goniocora pumila Quenstedt 1852 stony coral
Heliocoenia variabilis Etallon 1859 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Heterocoeniidae
Acanthogyra micra Eliasova 1973 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
Psammogyra choffati Koby 1880 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Actinastrea furcata Etallon 1859 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Amphiastreidae
Pleurophyllia trichotoma de Fromentel 1856 stony coral