Casais do Azedo, Arruda Subbasin, Abadia Formation, Serra Isabel (Jurassic of Portugal)

Also known as Reef 503

Where: Portugal (39.0° N, 9.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 1.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Abadia Formation, Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)

• Serra Isabel level

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• coral thrombolite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Nose. 1995. Vergleichende Faziesanalyse und Palökologie korallenreicher Verflachungsabfolgen des iberischen Oberjura [Comparative facies analysis and palaeoecology of coral-bearing shallowing-upwards successions from the Upper Jurassic of Iberia]. Profil 8:1-237 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68815: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.02.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Solenocoeniidae
"Convexastrea sexradiata" = Solenocoenia sexradiata
"Convexastrea sexradiata" = Solenocoenia sexradiata Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Dermosmilia glomerata, "Dermoseris aff. capitata" = Dermosmilia capitata
Dermosmilia glomerata Michelin 1843 stony coral
"Dermoseris aff. capitata" = Dermosmilia capitata Koby 1904 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
"Thecosmilia trichotoma" = Thecosmilia densa, Montlivaltia cf. truncata, "Montlivaltia renevieri" = Montlivaltia vesiculosa
"Thecosmilia trichotoma" = Thecosmilia densa Fromentel 1870 stony coral
Montlivaltia cf. truncata Defrance 1817 stony coral
"Montlivaltia renevieri" = Montlivaltia vesiculosa Koby 1884 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
Rhipidogyra costata Becker 1875 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Tricycloseris aff. triangularis Gregory 1900 stony coral
Microsolena agariciformis Etallon 1859 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Ovalastrea plicata Koby 1904 stony coral