Also known as Reef 3573
Where: France (44.8° N, 0.6° W: paleocoordinates 44.7° N, 2.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)
• Upper Aquitanian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified, sandy limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. P. Chevalier. 1961. Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale [Miocene corals and reefs from the western Mediterranean]. Memoires de la Societe geologique de France 93:1-562 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 70241: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Tarbellastraea ellisiana, Tarbellastraea aquitaniensis, Favites neugeboreni, Caulastrea cf. matheroni
Tarbellastraea ellisiana Defrance 1826 stony coral
Tarbellastraea aquitaniensis Chevalier 1961 stony coral
Caulastrea cf. matheroni Chevalier 1961 stony coral | |
Rhizangia martini Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral | |
Favia aquitaniensis Chevalier 1961 stony coral | |
Heliastrea saucatsensis Chevalier 1954 stony coral | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Turbinaria cyathiformis de Blainville 1830 stony coral | |
Pocillopora cf. madreporacea, Stylophora thirsiformis, Stylophora parvistella, Stylophora raristella
Pocillopora cf. madreporacea Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Stylophora thirsiformis Michelotti 1847 stony coral
Stylophora parvistella Chevalier 1961 stony coral
Stylophora raristella Defrance 1826 stony coral | |
? Platycoenia tarbellensis Chevalier 1961 stony coral | |
Acropora lavandulina Michelin 1840 stony coral
Acropora exarata Michelotti 1838 stony coral |