Ponte da Velha Sara, Faro, Sao Romao Limestone (Jurassic to of Portugal)

Also known as Reef 3482

Where: Portugal (37.2° N, 8.0° W: paleocoordinates 31.3° N, 1.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sao Romao Formation, Late/Upper Oxfordian to Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 150.8 Ma)

• intercalated in the upper part of the Peral Beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• coral-stromatoporoid biostromes

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 68614: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.01.2007

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Inoperna perplicata Etallon 1863 mussel
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Lopha sp. Röding 1798 oyster
 Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Ceratomya excentrica Roemer 1836 clam
 Hippuritida - Diceratidae
Diceratidae indet. Dall 1895 rudist
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
"Pseudocoenia radisensis" = Adelocoenia radisensis d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral
Heliocoenia variabilis Etallon 1859 stony coral
Goniocora socialis Roemer 1836 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Microsolena agariciformis Etallon 1859 stony coral
Comoseris meandrinoides Michelin 1843 stony coral
Stromatoporoidea
  -
Stromatoporina tornquisti Deininger 1906 stromatoporoid sponge
Milleporidium lusitanicum stromatoporoid sponge
Milleporidium variocellatum stromatoporoid sponge
Milleporidium formosum stromatoporoid sponge
Demospongiae
 Agelasida - Milleporellidae
Dehornella hydractinoides Dehorne 1919 demosponge
Dehornella choffati Dehorne 1917 demosponge
Dehornella crustans Hudson 1960 demosponge
 Tabulospongida - Parastromatoporidae
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Corallinaceae indet. Lamouroux 1816
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Foraminifera
 Loftusiacea - Hottingeritidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839