Publication: Los Santos de Maimona: un arrecife del Carbonífero
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2014
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Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural
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La denominada Caliza de Siphonodendron en la cuenca Carbonífera de Los Santos de Maimona representa un ejemplo excepcional de estructura arrecifal construida principalmente por corales rugosos. No constituye un arrecife con estructura compleja, sino una llanura arrecifal en la que se combinan unos pocos (pero muy abundantes) organismos bioconstructores (corales rugosos y tabulados) y una gran diversidad de organismos acompañantes, entre los que destacan braquiópodos, algas calcáreas, equinodermos, briozoos, moluscos, foraminíferos, ostrácodos, etc. En esta caliza se pueden observar numerosos ejemplos de interacción entre organismos y de sucesiones ecológicas, por lo que tiene un inmenso valor paleontológico.
The Siphonodendron Limestone at Los Santos de Maimona Carboniferous Basin is regarded as a reef structure built mainly by rugose corals. It is not a complex reef, but a reef-flat in which few building organisms (rugose and tabulate corals) are combined with highly diverse secondary components, such as brachiopods, calcareous algae, echinoderms, bryozoans, molluscs, foraminifers, ostracods, etc. Many examples of interaction between organisms and ecological successions are visible in that limestone, which consequently have a very high paleontological value
The Siphonodendron Limestone at Los Santos de Maimona Carboniferous Basin is regarded as a reef structure built mainly by rugose corals. It is not a complex reef, but a reef-flat in which few building organisms (rugose and tabulate corals) are combined with highly diverse secondary components, such as brachiopods, calcareous algae, echinoderms, bryozoans, molluscs, foraminifers, ostracods, etc. Many examples of interaction between organisms and ecological successions are visible in that limestone, which consequently have a very high paleontological value