Malaguide Complex, Casa de la Sabina locality, sample SAB02a (Oligocene of Spain)

Where: Spain (37.9° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 4.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: El Bosque Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• The upper part of the section can extend to the early Chattian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; silty floatstone and rudstone

• (8 m thick). Flat coral colonies (20–30 cm wide and up to 8 cm thick) locally encrusted by corallines, in a mudstone to packstone matrix. Branching corals. Echinoid, mollusc, and bryozoan fragments. Miliolids, rare nummulitids, crustose and geniculate coralline algae. Encrusting agglutinated foraminifers
• Floatstone to rudstone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. C. Braga and D. Bassi. 2011. Facies and coralline algae from Oligocene limestones in the Malaguide Complex (SE Spain). Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, Serie A (113)291-308 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 147582: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 09.07.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet.
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Haddonia sp.
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Operculina sp.
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet.
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
unclassified
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Mollusca indet.
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758