Huergas el Millar, SL-MI-6, Castilla (Devonian of Spain)

Also known as Reef 3749

Where: Castilla-León, Spain (42.8° N, 5.7° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 28.0° S, 1.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Santa Lucia Formation, Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• thickness: 6.5 m

•upper part of San Lucia fm (SL)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; floatstone and bafflestone

• Floatstone (60Vol%) and bafflestone (Vol40%)

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. Méndez-Bedia, F. Soto, and E. Fernández-Martínez. 1994. Devonian reef types in the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain) and their faunal composition. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 172(2):161-183 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80646: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Falko Reichel on 01.05.2008

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Taxonomic list

• Mesophyllum collected from bafflestone

•Favositids and Stromatoporoids collected from floatstone

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Anthozoa
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
"Mesophyllum (Cystiphylloides) originale" = Cystiphylloides
"Mesophyllum (Cystiphylloides) originale" = Cystiphylloides horn coral
ballonifer
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
cf. Embolophyllum aff. harperi
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp.
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae
Actinostroma cf. conglomeratum, Plectostroma ? sp.
Actinostroma cf. conglomeratum stromatoporoid sponge
Plectostroma ? sp. Nestor 1964 stromatoporoid sponge