Mud Mound, La Gándara, Soba Valley (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as Reef 903

Where: Spain (43.2° N, 3.6° W: paleocoordinates 31.8° N, 4.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified bindstone

• 250 m wide and 150 m thick mud mound with sparse macrofossils

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. García-Mondéjar and P. A. Fernández-Mendiola. 1995. Albian carbonate mounds: comparative study in the context of sea-level variations (Soba, northern Spain). In: Monty, C.L.V., Bosence, D.W.J., Bridges, P.H. & Pratt, B.R., Carbonate Mud-Mounds - Their Origin and Evolution. - IAS Spec. Pub. 23:359-384 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 56771: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 24.11.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida -
 Thecideida -
Thecideida indet. Pajaud 1970
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Requieniidae
Toucasia sp. Munier-Chalmas 1873 rudist
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Radiolites sp. Lamarck 1801 rudist
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Stylinidae indet. d'Orbigny 1851 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Cyathophoridae
Cyathophoridae indet. Vaughan and Wells 1943 stony coral
Hexactinellida
 Hexasterophora -
Hexactinosa indet. Schrammen 1903 glass sponge
Demospongiae
 Hadromerida - Acanthochaetetidae
Acanthochaetetes seunesi Fischer 1970 demosponge
 Clavulina - Adociidae
Aka cf. muelleri Reitner and Keupp 1991 demosponge
Lithocodium
  -
Lithocodium sp. Elliott 1956
Cyanophyceae
  -
Cayeuxia sp. Frollo 1938
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales -
Acicularia sp. d'Archiac 1843
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Boueina sp. Toula 1883
 Bryopsidales - Codiaceae
Arabicodium sp. Elliott 1957
Foraminifera
  -
Coskinolinella sp.
incrusting
 Lituolacea - Haplophragmoiidae
Placopsilina sp. d'Orbigny 1850
incrusting