Also known as Reef 3693

Where: Extremadura, Spain (38.6° N, 5.8° W: paleocoordinates 46.7° S, 30.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• thickness 3.5 m

•All 18 stromatoporoid coenostea were collected from bed 19 and from the uppermost metre of bed 18

•The outcropping sequence is subdivided into 22 beds by RODRÍGUEZ GARCÍA (1978) and MORENO-EIRIS (1995)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: A. May. 2007. Lower Devonian stromatoporoids of the Sierra Morena (Southern Spain) and their palaeogeographic affinities. Hubmann, B. & Piller, W.E. (Eds.): Fossil Corals and Sponges. Proceedings of the 9 th international Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera. - Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Schriftenreihe der Erdwissenschaftlichen Kommissionen 17:139-151 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76963: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Falko Reichel on 11.12.2007

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