Cap Blanc reef complex, SW Mallorca (Miocene to of Spain)

Also known as Reef 679

Where: Spain (39.4° N, 2.8° E: paleocoordinates 39.9° N, 1.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Tortonian to Tortonian (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• Upper Tortonian-Lower Messinian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Porites and Porites-Tarbellastraea framestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Pomar, W. C. Ward, and D. G. Green. 1996. Upper Miocene reef complex of the Llucmajor area, Mallorca, Spain. SEPM Concepts in Sedimentology and Paleontology 5:191-225 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 69855: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.03.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Corallinaceae indet. Lamouroux 1816
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Tarbellastraea sp. Alloiteau 1950 stony coral
Tarbellastraea tenera Reuss 1847 stony coral
Tarbellastraea bragai Stemann and Budd 1996 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Lepetellida - Haliotidae
Haliotis sp. Linnaeus 1758 abalone
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
Strombus sp. Linnaeus 1758 conch
 Sorbeoconcha - Vermetidae
Vermetidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 worm shell
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pectinidae indet. Wilkes 1810 scallop
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin