La Venta: proximal outer ramp, Coral Faunas, Iberian Chain: Late/Upper Aptian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Cyathophoridae
Cryptocoenia aff. pygmaea (Volz 1903)
synonym of Cryptocoenia fontserei
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Calamophylliopsis fotisalensis (Bendukidze 1961)
questionable assignment
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Mesomorpha vaughani (Wells 1932)
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain
Coordinates: 40.1° North, 0.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:28.6° North, 8.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 2-3
Key time interval:Late/Upper Aptian
Age range of interval:119.50000 - 113.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Benassal
Local section:La Venta Local bed:6
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: The succession studied belongs to the depositional sequence K.1.9 in which precise biozones were defined with orbitolines..., El Palasiet succession
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified packstone
Lithology description: This 4-m-thick level consists of packstones with sponge spicules, calcispheres, planktonic foraminifers and corals. Small pectinacean bivalves and fragments of echinoids are also present.
Environment:deep subtidal ramp
Geology comments: Most of the corals are lamellar and sheet-like (2 to 30 cm width and 2–5 mm high). They are found in growth position and parallel to the substrate (horizontally) although corals orientated perpendicular to the substrate also occur. Coral species diversity is low. Most of the corals of this unit are
veneered first by coralline algal crusts and then by stromatolites.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:82691
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:A. Girndt
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-07-31 07:32:55 Last modified:2008-08-01 04:45:00
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
27817. S. Tomás, H. Löser, and R. Salas. 2008. Low-light and nutrient-rich coral assemblages in an Upper Aptian carbonate platform of the southern Maestrat Basin (Iberian Chain, eastern Spain). Cretaceous Research 29:509-534 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt/M. Nimke]