SW Lorca Basin, Murcia: Tortonian - Messinian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea
Echinoidea indet. (Leske 1778)
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
unclassified
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Vermetidae indet. Rafinesque 1815
Bivalvia
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Lithophaga sp. Röding 1798
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Tarbellastraea sp. Alloiteau 1950
Tarbellastraea reussiana (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807
Porites arenosa (Esper 1797)
Porites collegniana Michelin 1842
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Acanthastraea sp. (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848)
original and current combination Acanthastrea
Florideophyceae - Sporolithales - Sporolithaceae
Sporolithon sp. (Rothpletz 1891)
original and current combination Archaeolithothamnium
Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Hydrolithaceae
Lithoporella sp. Foslie 1909
Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Spongitaceae
Spongites sp. Kützing 1841
Florideophyceae - Hapalidiales - Lithothamniacae
Lithothamnion sp. Heydrich 1897
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain
Coordinates: 37.7° North, 1.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.8° North, 2.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Tortonian - Messinian
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Middle Tortonian-Early Messinian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: sigmoid reefs (up to 15 m thick and 40-50 m in length), carpets and patch-reefs (0.5-1 m thick), Tarbellastraea bioherms (0.5-5 m thick) developed in 4 units
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 649
Database number:70515
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-03-27 07:50:58 Last modified:2007-03-27 10:50:59
Access level:the public Released:2007-03-27 07:50:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
23651. E. Vennin, J. M. Rouchy, C. Chaix, M. M. Blanc-Valleron, A. Caruso and V. Rommevau. 2004. Paleoecological constraints on reef-coral morphologies in the Tortonian-Early Messinian of the Lorca Basin, SE Spain. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 213:163-185 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]