Also known as Reef 498
Where: Portugal (37.1° N, 7.9° W: paleocoordinates 31.1° N, 1.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)
• intercalated between the Peral and Jordana Beds
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks and lithified marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: R. R. Leinfelder, M. Krautter, M. Nose, M. M. Ramalho, and W. Werner. 1993. Siliceous sponge facies from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 189:199-254 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 68207: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.01.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
cf. Stylosmilia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Goniocora sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral | |
Hydrozoa | |
Tubiphytes sp. Maslov 1956 | |
Hexactinellida | |
? Craticularia sp. Zittel 1877 glass sponge
Craticularia parallela Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge
Laocoetis sp. Pomel 1872 glass sponge | |
Stauroderma sp. Zittel 1877 glass sponge
Stauroderma lochense glass sponge | |
"Tremadictyon reticulatum" = Cribrospongia reticulata, "Tremadictyon sp." = Cribrospongia
"Tremadictyon reticulatum" = Cribrospongia reticulata Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge
"Tremadictyon sp." = Cribrospongia d'Orbigny 1849 glass sponge | |
Pachyteichisma sp. Zittel 1877 glass sponge | |
Demospongiae | |
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Platychonia ? auriformis demosponge | |
Crinoidea | |
Isocrinus sp. von Meyer 1836 Sea lily | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Polychaeta | |
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835 | |
Insecta | |
Neuropora spinosa spongillafly |