Ponta da Rana-Cai Agua area, rudist bioconstruction (Cretaceous of Portugal)

Also known as Reef 1968

Where: Portugal (38.7° N, 9.3° W: paleocoordinates 28.6° N, 3.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified wackestone and lithified lime mudstone

• max. 3 m thick

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. Rey. 1979. Les formations bioconstruites du Cretace Inferieur d'Estremadura (Portugal) [Bioconstructed formations of the Early Cretaceous of Estremadura (Portugal)]. Geobios, Memoire Special 3:89-99 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67543: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.11.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Requieniidae
 Hippuritida - Caprinidae
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
 Hippuritida - Caprinulidae
 Hippuritida - Polyconitidae
Lithocodium aggregatum
  -
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Marinella lugeoni Pfender 1939
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
 Dasycladales -
Terquemella sp. Morellet and Morellet 1913
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Boueina sp. Toula 1883
 Bryopsidales - Codiaceae
Arabicodium sp. Elliott 1957
Foraminifera
  -
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Alveolinidae
Foraminifera
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