Also known as Reef 502
Where: Spain (40.3° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 31.4° N, 8.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified bindstone and lithified rudstone
•Microbial crusts dominate, but small to medium sized corals and corraline sponges increase up-section.
•Siliceous sponge spicules at base.
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, peel or thin section,
Primary reference: C. Errenst. 1990. Das korallenführende Kimmeridgium der nordwestliche Iberischen Ketten und angrenzender Gebiete (Fazies, Paläogeographie und Beschreibung der Korallenfauna), Teil 1. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 214:121-207 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34613: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 12.09.2003, edited by Mihaela Krause
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Tubothalamea | |
Miliolidae indet.2 Ehrenberg 1839 | |
Rhodophyceae | |
Marinella lugeoni2 Pfender 1939
Solenopora sp.2 Dybowski 1877 | |
Anthozoa | |
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Thecosmilia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
"Stylina excelsa" = Adelocoenia excelsa2
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Hydrozoa | |
Tubiphytes sp.2 Maslov 1956 | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
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Bivalvia | |
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Bryozoa | |
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Polychaeta | |
Serpula indet.2 Linnaeus 1758 | |
Lithocodium | |
Lithocodium sp.2 Elliott 1956 | |
Cyanophyceae | |
Cayeuxia sp.2 Frollo 1938 | |
Bacinella sp.2 Radoicic 1959 | |
Wetheredellidae | |
Koskinobullina sp.2 Cherchi and Schroeder 1979 | |
Thalassinoides sp.2 Ehrenberg 1944
Planolites sp.2 Nicholson 1873 |