Also known as Reef 970
Where: France (43.5° N, 3.3° E: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 2.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• Vindobonian (Middle Miocene-Tortonian?)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. P. Chevalier. 1961. Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale [Miocene corals and reefs from the western Mediterranean]. Memoires de la Societe geologique de France 93:1-562 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 70317: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Mussismilia sp. Ortmann 1890 stony coral | |
Tarbellastraea sp. Alloiteau 1950 stony coral
Tarbellastraea reussiana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral | |
Heliastrea sp. Milne Edwards and Haime 1857 stony coral | |
"Thegioastraea cf. speciosa" = Diploastrea speciosa
"Thegioastraea cf. speciosa" = Diploastrea speciosa Sismonda 1871 stony coral | |
Acanthastrea cf. dausi Chevalier 1961 stony coral |