Upper Reef, Cati, Maestrazgo (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as Reef 2842

Where: Spain (40.5° N, 0.1° E: paleocoordinates 30.4° N, 9.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Llacova Formation, Hauterivian (132.9 - 129.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Reef B (upper reef). This is about 2.5 m thick and also

•pinches out laterally, comprising a horizontal extent of about

•20 m.

•The reefs consist of corals and microbialite (mainly thrombolite)

•as the main constructors. In both reef units, thrombolites

•formed subsequently, overlying a first layer of

•encrusters that settled directly on the corals. Encrusters comprise

•algae, foraminifera, bryozoans and serpulid polychaetes,

•but small lithistid, chaetetid and stromatoporoid sponges are

•also frequent.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, peel or thin section,

• Focus on corals

Primary reference: S. Götz, H. Löser, and D. U. Schmid. 2005. Reef development on a deepening platform: two Early Cretaceous coralgal patch reefs (Cati, Llacova Formation, eastern Spain) compared. Cretaceous Research 26:864-881 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 56708: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 23.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
  -
"Thrombolite" indet.
Foraminifera
 Hormosinacea - Telamminidae
Troglotella incrustans
 Lituolacea - Haplophragmoiidae
Placopsilina sp.
Placopsilina sp. d'Orbigny 1850
Florideophyceae
 Sporolithales - Corallinophycidae
Sporolithon rude, Sporolithon phylloideum
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Comoseriidae
Polyphylloseris cf. mammillata, Polyphylloseris mammillata
Polyphylloseris cf. mammillata Eguchi 1951 stony coral
Polyphylloseris mammillata Eguchi 1951 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
"Dimorphocoenia rudis" = Meandrastrea rudis
"Dimorphocoenia rudis" = Meandrastrea rudis de Fromentel 1886 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
"Stylina parvistella" = Stylina inwaldensis
"Stylina parvistella" = Stylina inwaldensis Ogilvie 1897 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Eocomoseris raueni, Microsolena kugleri
Eocomoseris raueni Löser 1993 stony coral
Microsolena kugleri Wells 1948 stony coral
unclassified
  -
Porifera indet.
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Boring sponges
Demospongiae
 Tabulospongida -
Tabulospongida indet.
Tabulospongida indet. Hartmann and Goreau 1975 demosponge
listed as "calcareous chaetetid sponges"
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Boring bivalves
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Diastoporidae
"Berenicea" sp.
"Berenicea" sp. Lamouroux 1821
Polychaeta
 Terebellomorpha -
Terebella lapilloides
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet.
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Lithocodium aggregatum
  -
Lithocodium aggregatum
Porostromata
  -
Iberopora bodeuri
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella irregularis
Bacinella irregularis Radoicic 1959