Sant Pau d'Ordal, Penedes Valley, Catalonia (Miocene to of Spain)

Also known as Reef 1999

Where: Spain (41.4° N, 1.8° E: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 0.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 13.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• coral reef, 15 m thick, 2 km long

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 70413: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.03.2007

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Taxonomic list

Florideophyceae
 Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
Lithothamnion sp. Heydrich 1897
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Porites cf. leptoclada Reuss 1871 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea miocenica Osasco 1896 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Heliastraeidae
Heliastrea oligophylla Reuss 1871 stony coral
Heliastrea cf. mellahica Gregory 1906 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Lithophyllia cf. gigas Chevalier 1961 stony coral
Mussismilia vindobonensis Chevalier 1961 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Favites cf. neglecta Michelotti 1868 stony coral
Tarbellastraea reussiana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
"Palaeoplesiastraea cf. romettensis" = Solenastrea romettensis
"Palaeoplesiastraea cf. romettensis" = Solenastrea romettensis Seguenza 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Turbinaria cyathiformis de Blainville 1830 stony coral
var. reussi