Also known as Reef 970
Where: France (43.3° N, 3.0° E: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 1.7° 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 70410: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Florideophyceae | |
Lithothamnion sp. Heydrich 1897 | |
Anthozoa | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Favites neglecta Michelotti 1868 stony coral
Tarbellastraea sp. Alloiteau 1950 stony coral
Tarbellastraea raulini Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
Tarbellastraea reussiana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral | |
"Palaeoplesiastraea cf. romettensis" = Solenastrea romettensis, Favia sp.
"Palaeoplesiastraea cf. romettensis" = Solenastrea romettensis Seguenza 1864 stony coral
Favia sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Heliastrea sp. Milne Edwards and Haime 1857 stony coral
Heliastrea oligophylla Reuss 1871 stony coral | |
Lithophyllia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1857 stony coral
Mussismilia sp. Ortmann 1890 stony coral
Mussismilia vindobonensis Chevalier 1961 stony coral | |
unclassified | |
Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754 | |
Bivalvia | |
Lithophaga sp. Röding 1798 mussel | |
Pecten sp. Müller 1776 scallop | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 |