Coallajú, Oviedo, Cantabria Unit A, Subunit 2: Givetian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801
Anthozoa - Favositida - Coenitidae
Platyaxum (Roseoporella) sp. Davis 1887
Anthozoa - Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831
Anthozoa - Cystiphyllida - Digonophyllidae
Mesophyllum (Mesophyllum) maximum
maximum
Anthozoa - Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Mesophyllum (Cystiphylloides) secundum
spelled with current rank as Cystiphylloides
M. s. secundum and M. s. conistructum
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Breviphrentis sp. Stumm 1949
Stromatoporoidea - Clathrodictyida - Atelodictyidae
Atelodictyon cf. strictum
Stromatoporoidea - Stromatoporellida - Trupetostromatidae
Hermatostroma pustulosum
Stromatoporoidea - Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora sp. Goldfuss 1826
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Asturias
Coordinates: 43.3° North, 6.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.1° South, 22.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Middle Devonian
Stage:Givetian 10 m.y. bin:Devonian 3
Key time interval:Givetian
Age range of interval:387.70000 - 382.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Candás
Local section:Candás Local bed:2
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: thickness of Unit A: 5-6 m
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: framestone
Lithology description: Large hemispherical stromatoporoid and irregular alveolitid framestone
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,peel or thin section
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 1613
Database number:80293
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:F. Reichel
Modifier:F. Reichel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-04-11 06:07:07 Last modified:2008-04-11 09:57:17
Access level:group members Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

27000. E. Fernández-Martínez, F. Soto, and I. Méndez-Bedia. 1994. An example of reef development in the Middle Devonian (Candás Fm., Givetian) in the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain). Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 172(2):103-110 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel]