Bayarque (Miocene of Spain)

Where: Spain (37.3° N, 2.4° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 3.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• Late Tortonian

Environment/lithology: coastal; conglomerate

• The coastal-platform-zone sediments are essentially conglomerates, frequently with bored pebbles and sometimes reworked into bars. The coastal talus-slope sediments vary gradually in composition basinwards from conglomerates to sands and silts.

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. C. Braga and J. M. Martin. 1988. Neogene coralline-algal growth-forms and their palaeoenvironments in the Ahnanzora river valley (Almeria, S.E. Spain). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (67)285-303 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 149232: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 30.07.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Florideophyceae
 Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
Mesophyllum koritzae Lemoine 1924
"Lithothamnium floreabrassica" = Lithothamnion
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835