L'Enfourna biostrome (Cretaceous of France)

Also known as Reef 1328

Where: Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France (43.6° N, 5.2° E: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 15.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• biostrome with lenticular elliptical shape, interbedded within fine grained biocalcarenites and muddy, cherty packstones

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: E. Morycowa and J. P. Masse. 2009. Lower Cretaceous Microsolenina (Scleractinia) from Provence (southern France). Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 79:97-140 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116611: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Microsolena sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
Microsolena guttata Koby 1897 stony coral
Microsolena aff. agariciformis Etallon 1859 stony coral
"Polyphylloseris distefanoi" = Microsolena major Ferry 1861 stony coral
Microsolena texana Wells 1932 stony coral
Hydnophoromeandraraea volzi Morycowa 1971 stony coral
Hydnophoromeandraraea provencensis Masse and Morycowa 1994 stony coral
Comoseris sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral
Comoseris aff. minima Beauvais 1964 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Microphyllia gemina Eliasova 2004 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Comoseriidae
Polyphylloseris icaunensis d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral