Serraduy, Campo-Tremp area, coralgal patch reefs (Eocene of Spain)

Also known as Reef 3662

Where: Spain (42.4° N, 0.5° E: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 1.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Ilerdian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: platform or shelf-margin reef; lithified limestone

• Prograding reefs
• coralgal patch reefs at carbonate bank margins, more than 20 m thick

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. Eichenseer and H. Luterbacher. 1992. The marine Paleogene of the Tremp region (NE Spain) - depositional sequences, facies history, biostratigraphy and controlling factors. Facies 27:119-152 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 77000: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.12.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Cursory decription of corals
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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Actinacididae
Actinacis sp.
Actinacis sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora sp.
Goniopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastreidae indet.
Siderastreidae indet. Vaughan and Wells 1943 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Antiguastrea sp., Leptoria sp., Cladocora sp.
Antiguastrea sp. Vaughan 1919 stony coral
Leptoria sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Cladocora sp. Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Faviidae indet., Montastreinae indet.
Faviidae indet. Gregory 1900 stony coral
Montastreinae indet. Vaughan and Wells 1943 stony coral