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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Acanthogyra micra" = Columnogyra micra, Psammogyra choffati
"Acanthogyra micra" = Columnogyra micra ELIÁŠOVÁ 1973 stony coral
Psammogyra choffati Koby 1881 stony coral | |
Actinastrea furcata Étallon 1859 stony coral | |
Pleurophyllia trichotoma de Fromentel 1856 stony coral | |
Heliocoenia variabilis Étallon 1859 stony coral
Goniocora pumila Quenstedt 1852 stony coral |