Aviados, AV-3, Castilla (Devonian of Spain)

Also known as Reef 2769

Where: Castilla-León, Spain (42.9° N, 5.4° W: paleocoordinates 43.2° S, 33.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Santa Lucia Formation, Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• thickness:5 m

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; floatstone

• floatstone inter bedded with bafflestone (10 vol%)

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: I. Méndez-Bedia, F. Soto, and E. Fernández-Martínez. 1994. Devonian reef types in the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain) and their faunal composition. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 172(2):161-183 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80630: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Falko Reichel on 30.04.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
 Favositida - Favositidae
Squameofavosites sp. Chernyshev 1941 tabulate coral