Casais Verdelho, Arruda Subbasin, Amaral Formation, Lisboa: Kimmeridgian, Portugal

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Bivalvia - Ostreida
Ostreoida indet. FĂ«russac 1822
corrected as Ostreida
unclassified
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Convexastrea pustulosa (Koby 1904)
recombined as Adelocoenia pustulosa
Dendrohelia ursicina Koby 1889
recombined as Stylohelia ursicina
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Calamophylliopsis flabellum (de Blainville 1830)
Calamophylliopsis stokesi (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851)
recombined as Calamophylliopsis stockesi
Dermosmilia simplex Koby 1889
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Calamophylliidae
cf. Gyrodendron sp. Quenstedt 1880
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Thamnasteria moreana (d'Orbigny 1850)
Thamnasteria lobata (Goldfuss 1826)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Ovalastrea cf. delgadoi
Comophyllia polymorpha (Koby 1906)
original and current combination Latimaeandra polymorpha
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Dermoseris delgadoi Koby 1905
Comoseris sp. d'Orbigny 1849
see common names

Geography
Country:Portugal
Coordinates: 39.0° North, 9.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.2° North, 1.3° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Kimmeridgian
Age range of interval:154.80000 - 149.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Amaral Member:"Coralico"
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: marly coral-microbial crust biostrome, up to 2.5 m thick
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 2746
Database number:68786
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-02-07 05:59:42 Last modified:2007-02-07 08:16:18
Access level:the public Released:2007-02-07 05:59:42
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

19856. M. Nose. 1995. Vergleichende Faziesanalyse und Palökologie korallenreicher Verflachungsabfolgen des iberischen Oberjura [Comparative facies analysis and palaeoecology of coral-bearing shallowing-upwards successions from the Upper Jurassic of Iberia]. Profil 8:1-237 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]