Zeneta area, San Miguel de Salinas Basin, Murcia (Miocene of Spain)

Also known as Reef 651

Where: Spain (38.0° N, 1.0° W: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 1.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified framestone and lithified reef rocks

• patch reefs, up to 15 m thick and with a lateral extension from 30 to 100 m
• Porites-framestone with coralline algal-foraminiferal-microbial crusts and mud- to wackestone matrix; coralline algal bindstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: C. Reinhold. 1995. Guild structure and aggradation pattern of Messinian Porites patch reefs: ecological succession and external environmental control (San Miguel de Salinas Basin, SE Spain). Sedimentary Geology 97:157-175 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 69812: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.03.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp.
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet.
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet.
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Cypraea sp.
Cypraea sp. Linnaeus 1758 cowry
 Sorbeoconcha - Vermetidae
Vermetidae indet.
Vermetidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 worm shell
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Lithophaga sp.
Lithophaga sp. Röding 1798 mussel
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda sp.
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812
Florideophyceae
  - Corallinophycidae
Lithoporella sp., Spongites sp., Lithothamnion sp.
Lithoporella sp. Foslie 1909
Spongites sp. Kützing 1841
Lithothamnion sp. Heydrich 1897
Globothalamea
 Loftusiida - Acervulinidae
Acervulina mabaheti
 Rotaliida - Cibicididae
Cibicides sp.
Cibicides sp. Monfort 1808
Foraminifera
  -
"Biloculina" sp.
"Biloculina" sp. d'Orbigny 1826
 Rotalioidea - Elphidiidae
Elphidium sp.
Elphidium sp. Monfort 1808
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Heterostegina sp.
Heterostegina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
 Asterigerinacea - Amphisteginidae
Amphistegina sp.
Amphistegina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
Ammonia sp.
Ammonia sp. Bruennich 1772
Nodosariata
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina sp.
Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Textularia sp.
Textularia sp. Defrance 1824
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Hauerinidae
Quinqueloculina sp., Triloculina sp.
Quinqueloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Triloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826