Also known as Reef 970
Where: France (43.5° N, 3.2° E: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 1.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• Vindobonian (Middle Miocene-Tortonian?)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 70318: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Acanthastrea dausi Chevalier 1961 stony coral | |
"Heliastrea cf. tchihatcheffi" = Montastrea tchihatcheffi
"Heliastrea cf. tchihatcheffi" = Montastrea tchihatcheffi Chevalier 1961 stony coral | |
Mussismilia vindobonensis Chevalier 1961 stony coral
Lithophyllia gigas Chevalier 1961 stony coral | |
Heliastrea sp., Heliastrea oligophylla, Heliastrea autignacensis n. sp., Heliastrea grandis, Heliastrea mellahica
Heliastrea sp. Milne Edwards and Haime 1857 stony coral
Heliastrea oligophylla Reuss 1871 stony coral
Heliastrea autignacensis n. sp. Chevalier 1961 stony coral
Heliastrea grandis Chevalier 1961 stony coral
Heliastrea mellahica Gregory 1906 stony coral | |
"Aphrastrea autignacensis n. sp." = Favites autignacensis, Tarbellastraea sp., Tarbellastraea cf. eggenburgensis, Tarbellastraea reussiana
"Aphrastrea autignacensis n. sp." = Favites autignacensis Chevalier 1961 stony coral
Tarbellastraea sp. Alloiteau 1950 stony coral
Tarbellastraea reussiana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral | |
"Thegioastraea cf. incerta" = Diploastrea incerta, "Thegioastraea cf. roasendai" = Diploastrea roasendai
"Thegioastraea cf. incerta" = Diploastrea incerta Osasco 1897 stony coral
"Thegioastraea cf. roasendai" = Diploastrea roasendai Michelotti 1871 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
Lithophaga lithophaga Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
Ostrea crassissima oyster
Ostrea granensis oyster | |
Pecten sp. Müller 1776 scallop |