Sao Romao, Faro, Sao Romao Limestone, Unit B (Jurassic to of Portugal)

Also known as Reef 3482

Where: Portugal (37.2° N, 7.9° W: paleocoordinates 31.2° N, 1.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• intercalated in the upper part of the Peral Beds

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• coral-stromatoporoid-chaetetid patch reefs and biostromes

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: D. U. Schmid and A. Jonischkeit. 1995. The Upper Jurassic Sao Romao Limestone (Algarve, Portugal): an isolated carbonate ramp. Profil 8:319-337 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68620: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 31.01.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Lithocodium aggregatum
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Foraminifera
 Hormosinacea - Telamminidae
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Diastoporidae
Berenicea sp. Lamouroux 1821
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Cyathophoridae
Pseudocoenia sp. d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Heliocoenia sp. Etallon 1859 stony coral
Stylina sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Convexastrea sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
Rhipidogyra sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Psammogyra sp. Fromentel 1862 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Eugyridae
Myriophyllia sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Calamophylliopsis sp. Alloiteau 1952 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Amphiastreidae
Amphiastrea sp. Etallon 1859 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Microsolena sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
Comoseris sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral
Stromatoporoidea
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Milleporidium sp. Steinmann 1903 stromatoporoid sponge
Demospongiae
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Ptychochaetetes sp. Koechlin 1947 demosponge
  - Burgundiidae
Burgundia sp. Dehorne 1916 demosponge
 Axinellida - Cladocoropsidae
Cladocoropsis mirabilis Felix 1907 demosponge
 Agelasida - Actinostromariidae
Actinostromaria sp. Haug 1909 demosponge
 Agelasida - Milleporellidae
Dehornella sp. Lecompte 1952 demosponge
Wetheredellidae
  - Wetheredellidae
Koskinobullina socialis Cherchi and Schroeder 1979
Tubiphytes morronensis
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"Tubiphytes morronensis" = Crescentiella morronensis
"Tubiphytes morronensis" = Crescentiella morronensis Crescenti 1969