El Desastre Reef, Fortuna Basin, Murcia (Miocene of Spain)

Also known as Reef 1835

Where: Spain (38.2° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 1.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified framestone

• coral and coralgal framestones, about 20 m thick

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. Mankiewicz. 1995. Response of reef growth to sea-level changes (Late Miocene, Fortuna Basin, southeastern Spain). Palaios 10:322-336 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 70514: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.03.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Neogoniolithon sp., Lithoporella sp., Archaeolithothamnium sp., Lithophyllum sp.
Neogoniolithon sp. Setchell and Mason 1943
Lithoporella sp. Foslie 1909
Archaeolithothamnium sp. Rothpletz 1891
Lithophyllum sp. Philippi 1837
 Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
Lithothamnion sp., Mesophyllum sp.
Lithothamnion sp. Heydrich 1897
Mesophyllum sp. Lemoine 1930
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Tarbellastraea sp.
Tarbellastraea sp. Alloiteau 1950 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp.
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam