Where: Spain (40.8° N, 0.6° E: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 0.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; bindstone and packstone
•palaeohigh made up of Miocene conglomerates. This palaeorelief is constituted by a flat, horizontal platform and a steeply dipping slope. The carbonate unit, consisting of a crust several decimeters in thickness on top of the flat platform, is made up of vermetid–coralline algal bindstones and associated packstones. They are exposed discontinuously on an area of about 150 m2. The bioconstruction is mostly formed by the intergrowth of vermetids and coralline algae, locally accompanied by serpulid worms
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: J. Aguirre, Z. Belaústegui, R. Domènechb, J. M. Gibert, and J. Martinell. 2014. Snapshot of a lower Pliocene Dendropoma reef from Sant Onofre (Baix Ebre Basin, Tarragona, NE Spain). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 395:9-20 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/S. Ávila]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 153720: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 10.01.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Florideophyceae | |
Spongites sp. Kützing 1841
Neogoniolithon sp. Setchell and Mason 1943 | |
Foraminifera | |
Planorbulinidae indet. Schwager 1877 | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Cidaroidea sp. sea urchin | |
Gastropoda | |
Vermetidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 worm shell
Dendropoma sp. Moerch 1861 worm shell | |
Olividae indet. Latreille 1825 olive snail | |
Cancellariidae indet. Gray 1853 snail | |
Nassariidae indet. Iredale 1916 snail | |
Muricidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 murex snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Lithophaga sp. Röding 1798 mussel | |
"Chlamys multistriata" = Talochlamys multistriata, "Mimachlamys varia" = Chlamys (Mimachlamys)
"Chlamys multistriata" = Talochlamys multistriata Poli 1795 scallop
"Mimachlamys varia" = Chlamys (Mimachlamys) scallop | |
Thecostraca | |
Pyrgomatidae indet. Gray 1825 coral barnacle
? Savignium sp. Leach 1825 coral barnacle | |
Balanus trigonus Darwin 1854 barnacle | |
Anthozoa | |
? Cladocora sp. Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral | |
Demospongiae | |
Entobia sp. demosponge | |
Gastrochaenolites sp. Leymerie 1842
Gastrochaenolites torpedo Kelly and Bromley 1984 |