Pena la Verde, Valdeteja, algal mound (Carboniferous of Spain)

Also known as Reef 236

Where: Castilla y Leon, Spain (43.0° N, 5.5° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° S, 8.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Valdeteja Formation, Bashkirian (323.2 - 315.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: intrashelf or intraplatform reef; lithified bafflestone and lithified bindstone

• Open platform algal mounds: 5-15 m thick, 50-100 m lateral extension. Mound core facies: Petschoria bafflestone and Donezella bind-/bafflestone, bioclastic grain-/wackestones at the mound margins

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: K. Eichmüller. 1985. Die Valdeteja Formation: Aufbau und Geschichte einer oberkarbonischen Karbonatplatform (Kantabrisches Gebirge, Nordspanien) [The Valdeteja Formation: environment and history of an Upper Carboniferous carbonate platform (Cantabrian Mountains, northern Spain)]. Facies 13:45-154 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76870: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.12.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Chlorophyceae
 Paleosiphonocladales - Donezellidae
Florideophyceae
 Cryptonemiales - Archaeolithophyllaceae
Petschoria elegans Korde 1951
Foraminifera
 Foraminiferida -
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera Eichwald 1830 foram
 Fusulinina - Tuberitinidae
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878