Arroyo Cerezo, Spain (Jurassic to of Spain)

Also known as Reef 501

Where: Spain (40.2° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 31.4° N, 7.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)

• Most likely Kimmeridgian, could be Tithonian according to Wnendt-Juber (1990)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks and lithified rudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

• Foraminifera omitted

Primary reference: C. Errenst. 1990. Das korallenführende Kimmeridgium der nordwestliche Iberischen Ketten und angrenzender Gebiete (Fazies, Paläogeographie und Beschreibung der Korallenfauna), Teil 1. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 214:121-207 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34610: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 12.09.2003

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Taxonomic list

Rhodophyceae
  - Gymnocodiaceae
Permocalculus sp.2 Elliott 1955
  - Solenoporaceae
Pycnoporidium lobatum2 Yabe and Toyama 1928
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Polyphysaceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Salpingoporella annulata2, "Heteroporella lemmensis" = Otternstella lemmensis2
"Heteroporella lemmensis" = Otternstella lemmensis2 Bassoulett et al. 1978
 Dasycladales -
 Charales - Characeae
Characeae indet.2 Agardh 1824
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp.2 Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Stylosmilia corallina Koby 1881 stony coral
Enallhelia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
Heliocoenia variabilis Etallon 1859 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Kobyastraeidae
Kobyastraea bourgeati1 Koby 1887 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
"Actinastrea ramulifera" = Stephanastrea ramulifera
"Actinastrea ramulifera" = Stephanastrea ramulifera Etallon 1864 stony coral
listed as Stephanastrea ramulifera
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Microsolena sp.1 Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
Comoseris cf. minima1 Beauvais 1964 stony coral
Comoseris ? frondescens1 Koby 1904 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Latomeandra fromenteli1 Koby 1885 stony coral
Wetheredellidae
  - Wetheredellidae
Koskinobullina socialis2 Cherchi and Schroeder 1979