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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Mussismilia vindobonensis Chevalier 1961 stony coral | |
Heliastrea cf. mellahica Gregory 1906 stony coral |