ammonites
Alrota, Pteroceriano Formation, coral patch reefs, Lisboa (Jurassic of Portugal)

Also known as Reef 2750

Where: Portugal (38.9° N, 9.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 0.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: upper Member (Pteroceriano Formation), Tithonian (150.8 - 145.5 Ma)

• "Alrota Limestones"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified bafflestone and lithified reef rocks

• lagoonal patch reefs within shallow siliciclastic-carbonate setting
• coral bafflestones, float/boundstones and framestones

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: R. R. Leinfelder. 1986. Facies, stratigraphy and paleogeographic analysis of Upper? Kimmeridgian to Upper Portlandian sediments in the environs of Arruda dos Vinhos, Estremadura, Portugal. Muenchner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, A 7:1-215 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68238: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.01.2007