Galicia Margin, ODP Leg 103, Site 639, 639D-5R (Jurassic of Portugal)

Also known as Reef 3246

Where: Portugal (42.1° N, 12.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° N, 0.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• 4 m thick well preserved reefal interval in dolomitized biohermal sequence of ca. 200 m thickness
• Hydrozoan floatstone, framestone, rudstone intercalated with intraclast skeletal packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: L. F. Jansa, M. C. Comas, M. Sarti and J. A. Haggerty. 1988. Late Jurassic carbonate platform of the Galicia margin. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results 103:171-192 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34584: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 11.09.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Coral taxa mentioned by Jansa are unknown and were omitted from the list
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unclassified
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Parastroporoidea sp., "Spongiostromata" indet.
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
cf. Dermosmilia sp.
cf. Dermosmilia sp. Koby 1884 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Calamophylliidae
"? Calamoseris sp." = Calamophyllia
"? Calamoseris sp." = Calamophyllia Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Microsolenidae indet., Trocharea sp., cf. Microsolena sp.
Microsolenidae indet. Koby 1890 stony coral
Trocharea sp. Etallon 1864 stony coral
cf. Microsolena sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
cf. Microsolena sp. 2
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Latomeandridae indet., cf. Dimorphastrea sp.
Latomeandridae indet. Alloiteau 1952 stony coral
cf. Dimorphastrea sp. d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Enallhelia sp.
Enallhelia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
Enallhelia sp. 2
 Scleractinia - Cyathophoridae
Pseudocoenia sp.
Pseudocoenia sp. d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral
unclassified
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Porifera indet.
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Demospongiae
 Chaetetida - Chaetetidae
Chaetetidae indet.
Chaetetidae indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 chaetetid sponge
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Blastochaetetes sp.
Blastochaetetes sp. Dietrich 1919 demosponge
Blastochatestes
 Axinellida - Cladocoropsidae
Cladocoropsis mirabilis
Cladocoropsis mirabilis Felix 1907 demosponge
Lithocodium
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Lithocodium sp.
Lithocodium sp. Elliott 1956
Lithocodium aggregatum
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Lithocodium aggregatum
Lithocodium aggregatum Elliott 1956
[entered as Lithocodium agregatum]
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella irregularis
Bacinella irregularis Radoicic 1959
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp.
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
Rhodophyceae
  - Gymnocodiaceae
Permocalculus sp.
Permocalculus sp. Elliott 1955
 Thaumatoporellales -
Thaumatoporella sp.
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Codiaceae
Arabicodium sp.
Arabicodium sp. Elliott 1957