Amendoeira III, Faro, Sao Romao Limestone: Late Oxfordian - Early Kimmeridgian, Portugal

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Corallinaceae indet. Lamouroux 1816
Rhodophyceae - Solenoporaceae
Chlorophyceae - Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Dasycladaceae indet. Kutzing 1843
Stromatoporoidea
Stromatoporina tornquisti (Deininger 1906)
Demospongiae
Demospongiae - Tabulospongida - Parastromatoporidae
Demospongiae - Hadromerida - Suberitidae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Stylosmilia michelini Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
Pseudocoenia radisensis (d'Orbigny 1850)
Stylina cf. anthemoides Meneghini 1880
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Amphiastreidae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Comoseridae
Comoseris kobyi Geyer 1955
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Ovalastrea michelini (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Epistreptophyllum montis (de Fromentel 1861)
Epistreptophyllum tenue Milaschewitsch 1876
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Thamnasteria moreana (d'Orbigny 1850)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Stenolaemata - Tubuliporata - Stomatoporidae
Stomatopora dichotoma (Lamoureux 1821)
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Nerineidae
Nerineidae indet. Zittel 1873
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Lopha solitaria (Sowerby 1824)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Diceratidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Portugal
Coordinates: 37.2° North, 8.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.3° North, 9.1° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5
Key time interval: Late Oxfordian - Early Kimmeridgian
Age range of interval: 157.9 - 152.21 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sao Romao
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: intercalated in the upper part of the Peral Beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified marl
Secondary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: small bioherms and patches in lagoonal environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 3482
Database number:68589
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-01-29 04:39:03 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-01-29 04:39:03
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
19775. S. Rosendahl. 1985. Die oberjurassische Korallenfazies von Algarve (Südportugal) [The Upper Jurassic coral facies of Algarve (Southern Portugal)]. Arbeiten aus dem Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie an der Universität Stuttgart 82:1-125 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

19784 D. U. Schmid and A. Jonischkeit. 1995. The Upper Jurassic Sao Romao Limestone (Algarve, Portugal): an isolated carbonate ramp. Profil 8:319-337 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]