Iberopora bodeuri GRANIER & BERTHOU 2002 (incertae sedis) from the Plassen Formation (Kimmeridgian–Berriasian) of the Tethyan Realm

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Description (Dublin Core)

<div>Iberopora bodeuri GRANIER & BERTHOU 2002, formerly known</div><div>as “crust problematicum” (SCHMID, 1996) is described from the</div><div>Plassen Formation (Kimmeridgian–Berriasian) of the Northern</div><div>Calcareous Alps (NCA). Here, it occurs either as an incrustation on</div><div>corals/stromatoporoids or it forms nodular masses (“solenoporoid</div><div>morphotype”). It is typically found in the fore-reef facies of the</div><div>platform margin, and (upper) slope deposits where autochthonous</div><div>dasycladales are absent. Water turbulence appears to control the</div><div>morphological development of Iberopora. Thus, flat crusts appear in</div><div>less agitated settings. The crusts are almost always accompanied by</div><div>calcareous sponges/sclerosponges and abundant micro-encrusters,</div><div>mostly Koskinobullina socialis CHERCHI & SCHROEDER and</div><div>“Tubiphytes” morronensis CRESCENTI. The stratigraphic range</div><div>of Iberopora known to date is Oxfordian–Berriasian. In addition</div><div>to the Northern Calcareous Alps, it has been reported from the</div><div>epicontinental area of NW-Germany, the northern margin of the</div><div>Penninic and Tethyan ocean (Slovakia, Switzerland, Spain, Poland,</div><div>Portugal) and the southern Tethyan domain (Greece, Romania,</div><div>Yugoslavia). Until other morphological elements (e.g. reproductive</div><div>organs or protoconch) are found, its systematic position remains</div><div>uncertain. Currently, it is considered questionably to be an ancestral</div><div>rhodophyceae or acervulinid-like foraminifera.</div>

Creator (Dublin Core)

Felix Schlagintweit

Subject (Dublin Core)

Incertae sedis

Upper Jurassic

Lower Cretaceous

Plassen Formation

Northern Calcareous Alps

Austria

Geology

QE1-996.5

Publisher (Dublin Core)

Croatian Geological Survey

Date (Dublin Core)

2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Type (Dublin Core)

article

Identifier (Dublin Core)

1330-030X

1333-4875

10.4154/GC.2004.01

https://doaj.org/article/66f85fd2ceff40ec8f1a61393cd5fd25

Source (Dublin Core)

Geologia Croatica, Vol 57, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2004)

Language (Dublin Core)

EN

Relation (Dublin Core)

http://www.geologia-croatica.hr/ojs/index.php/GC/article/view/210

https://doaj.org/toc/1330-030X

https://doaj.org/toc/1333-4875

Provenance (Dublin Core)

Journal Licence: CC BY

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