Where: Ciudad Real, Spain (38.8° N, 4.8° W: paleocoordinates 73.8° S, 85.7° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Amorphognathus tvaerensis conodont zone, upper Tristani beds Member (Botella Quartzite Formation), Dobrotivian (459.0 - 457.9 Ma)

• Conodont zone estimated by Sarmiento et al. (2011: A brief summary of Ordovician conodont faunas from the Iberian Peninsula. pp. 505-511 in Ordovician of the World, J.C. Gutiérrez-Marco, I. Rábano and D. García-Bellido, eds.),

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•The paleontological point of view, the bottom panel member and the base of the upper massive quartzites provided in rare deposits a very particular fauna and trilobites homalonolides dalmanitides (Hammann and Henry 1978; Hammann, 1983; Rábano, 1989a- c), brachiopods (Mélou 1975), conodonts (Sarmiento el al., 1995) and rare graptolites and molluscs.

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• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; quartzite and shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: J. C. Gutiérrez-Marco and C. Babin. 1999. Lyrodesma el autres mollusques bivalves des Quartzites Botella (Ordovicien Mayen) de la Zone Centre-ibérique (Espagne). Revista Españlla de Paleontología n° extr. H:229-238 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174656: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 20.11.2015

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