Open AccessTabulés dinantiens du Sud-Ouest du Portugal [Tabulate corals from the Dinantian of South-Western Portugal]
Author(s) -
Francis Tourneur
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
geologica belgica (printed)/geologica belgica (online)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.227
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2034-1954
pISSN - 1374-8505
DOI - 10.20341/gb.2014.004
Subject(s) - viséan , carboniferous , facies , fauna , geology , paleontology , permian , ecology , biology , structural basin
A small fauna of Tabulate corals, collected in the Visean of South-Western Portugal (Carrapateira-Bordeira area), is systematically described. The genera Sutherlandia Cocke & Bowsher 1968, Smythina Weyer 1970 and Cladochonus McCoy 1847 are for the first time reported from the Dinantian of Portugal. A similar association is known from the Culm facies of England and Germany. That confirms the close affinities between these regions and Portugal in the early Carboniferous. The growth habits of the corals suggest that the community was living on a soft muddy bottom. A comparison is proposed with the classical Tabulate coral fauna of Basleo, in the Permian of Timor.