Cabo Roche town (Pliocene to of Spain)

Where: Spain (36.5° N, 6.2° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 6.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Late/Upper Pliocene to Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 3.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; carbonate

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: J. C. Braga and J. Aguirre. 1995. Taxonomy of fossil coralline algal species: Neogene Lithophylloideae (Rhodophyta, Corallinaceae) from southern Spain. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 86:265-285 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 137719: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 18.12.2012

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Taxonomic list

• This study describes coralline algae
Florideophyceae
 Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
"Lithophyllum orbiculatum" = Lithothamnion orbiculatum
"Lithophyllum orbiculatum" = Lithothamnion orbiculatum Foslie 1895
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Lithophyllum nitorum Adey and Adey 1973
Lithophyllum dentatum Kützing 1841
Lithophyllum incrustans Philippi 1837
"Lithophyllum pustulatum" = Titanoderma pustulatum Lamouroux 1816