Where: Portugal (36.9° N, 25.1° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 25.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• Upper Miocene
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; rudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: coquina
Primary reference: A. -C. Rebelo, M. W. Rasser, R. Riosmena-Rodriguez, A. I. Neto, and S. P. Avila. 2014. Rhodolith forming coralline algae in the Upper Miocene of Santa Maria Island (Azores, NE Atlantic): a critical evaluation. Phytotaxa 190(1):370-382 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 165170: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 13.01.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Florideophyceae | |
Hydrolithon sp., Spongites sp., "Lithophyllum prototypum" = Titanoderma prototypum, Lithophyllum sp.
Hydrolithon sp. Foslie 1909
Spongites sp. Kützing 1841
"Lithophyllum prototypum" = Titanoderma prototypum Foslie 1897
Lithophyllum sp. Philippi 1837 | |
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cf. Phymatolithon sp. Foslie 1898
Phymatolithon calcareum Pallas 1766 | |