Puig de Peguera, Mallorca (Oligocene of Spain)

Where: Spain (39.5° N, 2.5° E: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 1.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Alaro Calcarenite Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• Lower Rupelian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified grainstone

• coral patches probably in a lagoonal environment

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Alvarez, P. Busquets, M. Vilaplana and E. Ramos-Guerrero. 1989. Fauna coralina paleogena de las Islas Baleares (Mallorca y Cabrera), Espana [Paleogene coral fauna from the Baleares Islands (Mallorca and Cabrera), Spain]. Batalleria 3:61-68 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 92081: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.10.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Antiguastrea lucasiana Defrance 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora ameliana Defrance 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Stylocoenia taurinensis Michelin 1842 stony coral