Barranc del Raco, Bocairente, rudist thicket (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as Reef 1960

Where: Spain (38.8° N, 0.6° W: paleocoordinates 30.9° N, 1.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified floatstone and lithified packstone

• coral-rudist floatstones/?bafflestones and coral boundstones at the base; packstones, grainstones and wackestones in the middle and upper part; 2 m thick

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. M. Pons, J. Gallemi, R. Höfling and E. Moussavian. 1994. Los Hippurites del Barranc del Raco, microfacies y fauna asociada (Maastrichtiense Superior, sur de la provincia de Valencia) [Hippuritids from Barranc del Raco, microfacies and associated fauna (Upper Maastrichtian, southern Valencia)]. Cuadernos de Geologia Iberica 18:271-307 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74557: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.08.2007

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
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Globothalamea
 Loftusiida - Acervulinidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Hauerinidae
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Pyrgo sp. Defrance 1824
Foraminifera
 Rotaliacea - Calcarinidae
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
Rotalia sp. Lamarck 1804
 Orbitoidacea - Orbitoididae
Orbitoides media d'Archiac 1837
Orbitoides apiculata Schlumberger 1901
Florideophyceae
 Sporolithales - Corallinophycidae
Sporolithon sp. Rothpletz 1891
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Neomeris sp. Lamouroux 1816
 Dasycladales -
Acicularia sp. d'Archiac 1843
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Actinacididae
Actinacis sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Procladocora sp. Alloiteau 1952 stony coral
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
"Hippurites radiosus" = Hippuritella lapeirousei Goldfuss 1840 rudist
Hippurites cornucopiae Defrance 1821 rudist
Echinoidea
 Echinoneoida - Conulidae