Also known as Reef 1999
Where: Spain (41.3° N, 1.7° E: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 0.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 13.8 Ma)
• 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 70415: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Florideophyceae | |
Corallinaceae indet. Lamouroux 1816 | |
Lithothamnion sp. Heydrich 1897 | |
Bivalvia | |
Lithophaga lithophaga Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
Pecten sp. Müller 1776 scallop | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Anthozoa | |
Tarbellastraea sp. Alloiteau 1950 stony coral
Tarbellastraea reussiana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
Favites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Heliastrea sp. Milne Edwards and Haime 1857 stony coral
Heliastrea oligophylla Reuss 1871 stony coral | |
Mussismilia (Protomussa) sanmiguelensis stony coral
Mussismilia vindobonensis Chevalier 1961 stony coral
Leptomussa falloti Chevalier 1961 stony coral | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Pavona (Hydnophoseris) miguelensis stony coral |