Fuente De, beresellid-chaetetid buildups (Carboniferous of Spain)

Also known as Reef 2686

Where: Asturias, Spain (43.1° N, 4.9° W: paleocoordinates 7.0° S, 10.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Picos de Europa Formation, Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

• algal boundstones in the lower part, chatetetid boundstones in the upper part

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: E. Minwegen. 2001. Die Biokonstruktionen im Pennsylvanium des Kantabrischen Gebirges (Nordspanien) [Pennsylvanian bioconstructions of the Cantabrian Mountains (Northern Spain)]. Kölner Forum für Geologie und Paläontologie 9:1-139 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76628: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.11.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Beresellaceae
Beresellaceae indet. Deloffre 1988
Osagia
  -
Osagia sp. Twenhofel 1919
Florideophyceae
 Cryptonemiales - Archaeolithophyllaceae
Rhodophyceae
 Florideae -
Ungdarella sp. Maslov 1956
  - Solenoporaceae
Komia sp. Korde 1951
Foraminifera
 Endothyroidea - Bradyinidae
 Palaeotextularoidea - Palaeotextulariidae
Climacammina sp. Brady 1873
Demospongiae
 Chaetetida - Chaetetidae
Chaetetidae indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 chaetetid sponge
Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet. horn coral
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail