Quarante-Cruzy, Languedoc: Middle Miocene, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Florideophyceae - Hapalidiales - Lithothamniacae
Lithothamnion sp. Heydrich 1897
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae
Palaeoplesiastraea cf. romettensis (Seguenza 1864)
recombined as Solenastrea romettensis
Favia sp. Oken 1815
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Favites neglecta (Michelotti 1868)
Tarbellastraea sp. Alloiteau 1950
Tarbellastraea raulini (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850)
Budd et al. 1996
Tarbellastraea reussiana (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
Mussismilia sp. Ortmann 1890
Mussismilia vindobonensis Chevalier 1961
Lithophyllia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1857
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Heliastraeidae
Heliastrea sp. Milne Edwards and Haime 1857
Heliastrea oligophylla Reuss 1871
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807
unclassified
Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Lithophaga sp. Röding 1798
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten sp. Müller 1776
unclassified
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 43.3° North, 3.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.5° North, 1.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Middle Miocene
Age range of interval:15.98000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Vindobonian (Middle Miocene-Tortonian?)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: patch reefs and small bioherms
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 970
Database number:70410
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-03-22 01:24:37 Last modified:2007-03-22 03:52:33
Access level:the public Released:2007-03-22 01:24:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
23527. J. P. Chevalier. 1961. Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale [Miocene corals and reefs from the western Mediterranean]. Memoires de la Societe geologique de France 93:1-562 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

28605 A. F. Budd, F. R. Bosellini, and T. A. Stemann. 1996. Systematics of the Oligocene to Miocene reef coral Tarbellastraea in the northern Mediterranean. Palaeontology 39(3):515-560 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]