Rasal locality, Ainsa-Jaca Basin, bryozoan floatstone facies (Eocene of Spain)

Where: Spain (42.4° N, 0.6° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 37.1° N, 4.4° E (Wright 2013)

• 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; floatstone and wackestone

• Interbedded and interfingered with the blue clay to marl some carbonate-rich intervals consist of bryozoan-floatstones with wackestone to packstone matrix

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 152585: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 26.11.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Foraminifera
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Spiroclypeus sp., Nummulites sp.
Nummulites sp. Lamarck 1801
  - Camerinidae
Pellatispira sp.
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet.
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet.
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835