Usabide and Legunbe, Pyrenean Basin, Navarra (Paleocene of Spain)

Also known as Reef 697

Where: Spain (42.9° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 3.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. I. Baceta, V. Pujalte, and G. Bernaola. 2005. Paleocene coralgal reefs of the western Pyrenean basin, northern Spain: New evidence supporting an earliest Paleogene recovery of reefal ecosystems. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 224:117-143 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68903: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.02.2007, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
 Planorbulinacea - Planorbulinidae
Planorbulinella sp. Cushman 1927
 Rotaliacea - Pellatispiridae
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
Rotalia sp. Lamarck 1804
 Nummulitacea - Discocyclinidae
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Ranikothalia sp. Caudri 1944
Nummulites sp. Lamarck 1801
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Solenomeris sp. Douvillé 1924
Florideophyceae
 Sporolithales - Corallinophycidae
Sporolithon sp. Rothpletz 1891
 Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
Lithothamnion sp. Heydrich 1897
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Polystrata alba Pfender 1936
unclassified
  -
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Actinacididae
Actinacis reussi Oppenheim 1930 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
"Goniopora sp." = Goniopora, "Litharaea sp." = Goniopora
"Goniopora sp." = Goniopora Blainville 1830 stony coral
"Litharaea sp." = Goniopora Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Cladocora sp. Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Rhizangiidae
Rhizangia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agathiphylliidae
? Agathiphyllia sp. Reuss 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Dendrophyllia sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
unclassified
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