Rasal locality, Ainsa-Jaca Basin, coral boundstone facies (Eocene of Spain)

Where: Spain (42.4° N, 0.6° W: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 3.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Arguis Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Lower Priabonian

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; mudstone and wackestone

• corals are sparse in the skeletal matrix or/and in clay-marl
• mudstone-wackestone matrix (fine-grained)

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Morsilli, F. R. Bosellini, L. Pomar, P. Hallock, and M. C. A. Aurell Papazzoni. 2012. Mesophotic coral buildups in a prodelta setting (Late Eocene, southern Pyrenees, Spain): a mixed carbonate–siliciclastic system. Sedimentology (59)766-794 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 152582: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 26.11.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet.
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Lithophaga sp.
Lithophaga sp. Röding 1798 mussel
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet.
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Pocillopora sp., Stylophora sp.
Pocillopora sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Stylophora sp. Schweigger 1819 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Astrocoenia sp.
Astrocoenia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Alveopora sp., Bacarella sp., Acropora sp., Astreopora sp.
Alveopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Bacarella sp. Turnsek and Kosir 2004 stony coral
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
Astreopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Caulastrea sp., Leptoria sp.
Caulastrea sp. Dana 1846 stony coral
Leptoria sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Colpophyllia sp.
Colpophyllia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinacididae
Actinacis sp.
Actinacis sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora sp.
Goniopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea sp.
Siderastrea sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Cyathoseris sp.
Cyathoseris sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agathiphylliidae
Agathiphyllia sp.
Agathiphyllia sp. Reuss 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
"Plocophyllia sp." = Euphyllia
"Plocophyllia sp." = Euphyllia Dana 1846 stony coral
unclassified
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Porifera indet.
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Demospongiae
 Chaetetida - Chaetetidae
Chaetetidae indet.
Chaetetidae indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 chaetetid sponge
Foraminifera
 Foraminifera -
Foraminifera indet.
Globothalamea
 Loftusiida - Acervulinidae
Acervulina linearis, Gypsina sp.
Gypsina sp. Carter 1877
Foraminifera
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Fabiania sp., Victoriella sp.
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Haddonia sp.
 Acervulinacea - Homotrematidae
Carpenteria sp., Miniacina sp.
 Nummulitacea - Discocyclinidae
Asterocyclina sp.
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Nummulites spp., Operculina ex gr. alpina, Heterostegina sp.
Nummulites spp. Lamarck 1801
Heterostegina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
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Gyroidinella magna