Foz do Benacoitao, Sagres area, Faro (Jurassic of Portugal)

Where: Portugal (37.0° N, 8.9° W: paleocoordinates 31.5° N, 0.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified marl

• back-reef

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 68612: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.01.2007

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Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Agelasida - Milleporellidae
Dehornella choffati Dehorne 1917 demosponge
Stromatoporoidea
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Stromatoporina tornquisti Deininger 1906 stromatoporoid sponge