Sierra del Cuera, platform slope (Carboniferous to of Spain)

Also known as Reef 3216

Where: Asturias, Spain (43.3° N, 4.8° W: paleocoordinates 7.9° S, 9.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Valdeteja Formation, Bashkirian to Bashkirian (323.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• Moscovian part: Picos de Europa Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope or ramp reef; lithified reef rocks and lithified wackestone

• The steep (30-40°) and nearly planar upper slope (0-300 m)is dominated by massive sheet-like layers of microbial, cement-rich boundstone, which alternate with intercalations of red-stained bryozoan cementstone with crinoids and brachiopods. The slightly gentler (20-26°) and concave-upward lower slope (300-700 m) is characterized by clast-supported resedimented deposits.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: J. R. Bahamonde, J. A. M. Kenter, G. Della Porta, L. Keim, A. Immenhauser and J. J.G. Reijmer. 2004. Lithofacies and depositional processes on a high, steep-margined Carboniferous (Bashkirian-Moscovian) carbonate platform slope, Sierra del Cuera, NW Spain. Sedimentary Geology 166:145-156 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76872: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.12.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Apterinellidae indet., Betpakodiscus sp., Globivalvulinella sp.
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Polychaeta
 Terebellomorpha -
? Terebella sp.
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet.
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Bryozoa
 Fenestellida -
Fenestellida indet.
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata -
Fistuliporina indet.
Fistuliporina indet. Astrova 1964
unclassified
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Porifera indet.
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Cuneiphycus
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Cuneiphycus sp.
Cuneiphycus sp. Johnson 1960
Calcisphaera
  -
Calcisphaera sp.
Calcisphaera sp. Williamson 1880
Asphaltina
  -
Asphaltina sp.
Asphaltina sp. Mamet 1972
Florideophyceae
 Cryptonemiales - Archaeolithophyllaceae
Archaeolithophyllum sp.
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Stacheoides sp.
Stacheoides sp. Cummings 1955
Rhodophyceae
  - Aoujgaliaceae
Fourstonella sp.
Fourstonella sp. Cummings 1955
 Florideae - Ungdarellaceae
Ungdarellaceae indet.
  - Solenoporaceae
Komia sp.
Komia sp. Korde 1951
Chlorophyceae
 Paleosiphonocladales - Donezellidae
Donezella sp.
Donezella sp. Maslov 1929
 Dasycladales -
Anthracoporella sp.
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Codiaceae
Anchicodium sp.
Anchicodium sp. Johnson 1946
Foraminifera
  -
Eolasiodiscus sp.
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Hemidiscus sp.
Hemidiscus sp. Schellwein 1897
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Insolentitheca sp.
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
Endothyra sp., Planoendothyra sp.
 Fusulinoidea - Eostaffellidae
Eostaffella sp.
Eostaffella sp. Rauser-Chernousova 1948
 Fusulinoidea - Profusulinellidae
Profusulinella sp.
 Fusulinoidea -
Neostaffella sp.
 Palaeotextularoidea - Palaeotextulariidae
Climacammina sp., Palaeotextularia sp.
Climacammina sp. Brady 1873
 Palaeotextularoidea - Biseriamminidae
Biseriella sp.
 Fusulinina - Tuberitinidae
Tuberitina sp.
 Fusulinina - Earlandiidae
Earlandia sp.
 Fusulinina - Pseudoammodiscidae
Pseudoglomospira sp.
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
Tetrataxis sp.
Tetrataxis sp. Ehrenberg 1854
 Archaediscacea - Lasiodiscidae
Monotaxinoides sp.
 Archaediscacea - Archaediscidae
Neoarchaediscus sp.
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Ammovertella sp.
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
Calcivertella sp., Calcitornella sp.
Renalcis
  - Chabakoviacea
Renalcis sp.
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Ortonella sp.
Ortonella sp. Garwood 1914
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp.
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878