Also known as Reef 696
Where: Spain (42.9° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 2.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• Upper Danian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks and lithified floatstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: J. I. Baceta, V. Pujalte, and G. Bernaola. 2005. Paleocene coralgal reefs of the western Pyrenean basin, northern Spain: New evidence supporting an earliest Paleogene recovery of reefal ecosystems. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 224:117-143 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 68902: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.02.2007, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
Astreopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral | |
Astrocoenia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Goniopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral | |
Actinacis reussi Oppenheim 1930 stony coral | |
"Rhabdophylliopsis alloiteaui" = Sideroseris
"Rhabdophylliopsis alloiteaui" = Sideroseris stony coral | |
Agathiphyllia sp. Reuss 1864 stony coral | |
Oculina sp. Gray 1847 stony coral | |
Cladocora sp. Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Antiguastrea sp. Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea Blainville 1830 stony coral | |
Dendrophyllia sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral | |
Mesomorpha sp. Pratz 1883 stony coral | |
unclassified | |
Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Foraminifera | |
Rotalia sp. Lamarck 1804 | |
Planorbulinella sp. Cushman 1927 | |
Chlorophyceae | |
Cymopolia sp. Lamouroux 1816
Broeckella sp. Munier-Chalmas 1922 | |
Uteria sp. Michelin 1847 | |
Rhodophyceae | |
Elianella elegans Pfender and Basse 1947 | |
Florideophyceae | |
Mesophyllum sp. Lemoine 1930
Lithothamnion sp. Heydrich 1897 | |
Polystrata alba Pfender 1936
Peyssonnelia sp. Decaisne 1841 | |
Sporolithon sp. Rothpletz 1891 |