Santa Pola reef, San Miguel de Salinas Basin, Alicante (Miocene of Spain)

Also known as Reef 900

Where: Spain (38.2° N, 0.6° W: paleocoordinates 38.3° N, 1.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• Reef Complex and Terminal Complex Units

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• asymmetric atoll-like reef, 5 km in diamter, max. thickness of 100 m
• Porites framestone in the Reef Complex Unit and Stromatolites in the Terminal Complex Unit

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. Calvet, I. Zamarreno, and D. Valles. 1996. Late Miocene reefs of the Alicante-Elche Basin, southeast Spain. SEPM Concepts in Sedimentology and Paleontology 5:177-190 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 69841: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.03.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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"Stromatolite" indet.
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
Arca sp.
Arca sp. Linnaeus 1758 ark
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pecten sp.
Pecten sp. Müller 1776 scallop
 Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama sp.
Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel box
Demospongiae
 Clavulina - Clionaidae
Cliona sp.
Cliona sp. demosponge
listed as Clyona sp.
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp.
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda sp.
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812