Also known as Reef 1463
Where: León, Spain (42.9° N, 5.1° W: paleocoordinates 30.9° S, 17.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Crémenes Limestone Member (Nocedo Formation), Late/Upper Frasnian (379.5 - 376.1 Ma)
• 15 - 20 m thick Unit
•southern slope of Cantabrian Mountains: restricted to the Esla Nappe Fold and Nappe Province
•JA: originally entered as Frasnian; paper title makes it pretty clear this is late Frasnian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, peel or thin section
Primary reference: I. M. Bedia and B. Mistiaen. 2007. Stromatoporoids from the latest reefal episode in the Devonian (late Frasnian) of the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain). Hubmann, B. & Piller, W. E. (Eds.)2007:Fossil Corals and Sponges: Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera, Graz 2003.- Österr. Akad. Wiss., Schriftenr. Erdwiss. Komm. 17:167-183 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 78575: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Falko Reichel on 10.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Sphaerocodium | |
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Sphaerocodium sp. Rothpletz 1890 | |
| Polychaeta | |
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Spirorbis sp. Daudin 1800 | |
| Anthozoa | |
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Alveolitidae indet. Duncan 1872 tabulate coral | |
| Stromatoporoidea | |
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Clathrocoilona cf. inconstans, Clathrocoilona sp., Clathrocoilona spissa, ? Stictostroma sp., Stictostroma saginatum
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