Monistrol de Noya, Penedes Valley, Catalonia (Miocene to of Spain)

Also known as Reef 1999

Where: Spain (41.5° N, 1.8° E: paleocoordinates 41.6° N, 0.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 13.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified 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 70412: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.03.2007

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Mussismilia vindobonensis Chevalier 1961 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Heliastraeidae
Heliastrea cf. mellahica Gregory 1906 stony coral
Heliastrea cf. oligophylla Reuss 1871 stony coral
var. major