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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Hellenocyclina beotica Reichel 1949 | |
Globothalamea | |
Tubothalamea | |
Triloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Pyrgo sp. Defrance 1824 | |
Foraminifera | |
Rotalia sp. Lamarck 1804 | |
Omphalocyclus macroporus Lamarck 1816
Orbitoides media d'Archiac 1837
Orbitoides apiculata Schlumberger 1901 | |
Florideophyceae | |
Sporolithon sp. Rothpletz 1891 | |
Chlorophyceae | |
Neomeris sp. Lamouroux 1816 | |
Acicularia sp. d'Archiac 1843 | |
Ulvophyceae | |
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812 | |
Anthozoa | |
Actinacis sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral | |
Procladocora sp. Alloiteau 1952 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
"Hippurites radiosus" = Hippuritella lapeirousei, Hippurites cornucopiae
"Hippurites radiosus" = Hippuritella lapeirousei Goldfuss 1840 rudist
Hippurites cornucopiae Defrance 1821 rudist | |
Echinoidea | |
Pygopyrina darderi sea urchin |