Dins es Guix, Menorca (Miocene of Spain)

Also known as Reef 756

Where: Spain (40.1° N, 4.1° E: paleocoordinates 41.1° N, 2.2° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)

• Age given as Vindobonian (Serravallian to ?Tortonian)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Reefal breccia

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Incomplete faunal list

Primary reference: R. Bourrouilh, J.-P. Chevalier, and D. Mongin. 1972. Données sédimentologiques et paléontologiques sur le Vindobonien du Nord de Minorque (Baléares). Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris, Série D 275:1955-1958 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 34469: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 02.09.2003

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Tarbellastraea reussiana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
"Barbatia (Acar) clathrata" = Acar
"Barbatia (Acar) clathrata" = Acar miniature ark
 Pectinida - Limidae
Limea strigilata Brocchi 1814 file clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
Echinoidea
 Camarodonta - Echinidae
 Clypeasteroida - Clypeasteridae
Clypeaster sp. Lamarck 1801 sand dollar
 Echinolampadoida - Echinolampadidae
Echinolampas sp. Gray 1825 sea urchin