Sierra de la Joya, Lujar (Triassic of Spain)

Also known as Reef 3612

Where: Spain (36.8° N, 3.4° W: paleocoordinates 1.4° N, 11.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Probably late Anisian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• mounds in a lagoonal environment
• bafflestones containing dasycladaceans, gastropods, bivalves, echinoderms ... together with solitary corals and branching cyanophytes (core facies), which alternate with Spongiostromata crusts (cap facies)

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: J. M. Martin and J. C. Braga. 1987. Bioconstrucciones del Anisiense-Ladiniense en el Trias Alpujarride [Anisian-Ladinian (Triassic) bioconstructions of the Alpujarrides, Spain]. Cuadernos de Geologia Iberica 11:421-444 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 73975: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.07.2007

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
 Dasycladales - Diploporaceae
 Dasycladales - Polyphysaceae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Fischerinidae
Fischerinidae indet. Millett 1898
Foraminifera
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
unclassified
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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam