Purujosa Section 3. Level 10. Moncayo Natural Park (Cambrian of Spain)

Where: Zaragoza, Spain (41.7° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 55.2° S, 110.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Solenopleuropsis thorali trilobite zone, Murero Formation, Menevian (504.5 - 499.5 Ma)

• "Purujosa 3 section (Pur3), level 10, Solenopleuropsis thorali Zone, Murero Formation, Lower Languedocian sensu Álvaro and Vizcaïno, 1998, Middle Cambrian (equivalent to Cambrian Series 3, Stage 5)."

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; red mudstone

• Fossils from "a thin layer (< 1 m in thickness) of red lutites that are richly fossiliferous." "The Murero Formation consists of a siliciclastic succession with some interbedded carbonate nodules (Liñán et al. 2002) and has been interpreted as deposited in transgressive conditions representing offshore environments (Álvaro and Vennin 1997; Gámez et al. 2009)."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: S. Zamora and A. B. Smith. 2010. The oldest isorophid edrioasteroid (Echinodermata) and the evolution of attachment strategies in Cambrian edrioasteroids. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 55(3):487-494 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192403: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 30.03.2018, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Peronopsidae
"Peronopsis ferox" = Redeagnostus ferox
"Peronopsis ferox" = Redeagnostus ferox Tullberg 1880
 Agnostida - Condylopygidae
Condylopyge sp. Hawle and Corda 1847
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
"Peronopsis acadica" = Acadagnostus acadica
"Peronopsis acadica" = Acadagnostus acadica Hartt 1868
 Agnostida -
Megagnostus sp. Robison 1994
Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Paradoxididae
"? Eccaparadoxides pradoanus" = Paradoxides (Eccaparadoxides), "Eccaparadoxides brachyrachis" = Paradoxides (Eccaparadoxides)
"? Eccaparadoxides pradoanus" = Paradoxides (Eccaparadoxides) trilobite
"Eccaparadoxides brachyrachis" = Paradoxides (Eccaparadoxides) trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Solenopleuridae
 Ptychopariida - Conocoryphidae
"Conocoryphe heberti" = Bailiella heberti
"Conocoryphe heberti" = Bailiella heberti Munier-Chalmas and Bergeron 1889 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Eoorthidae
Brahimorthis alvaroi n. sp.1 Mergl and Zamora 2012
Lingulata
 Lingulida -
Lingulida indet. Waagen 1885
Cincta
  - Gyrocystidae
Gyrocystis platessa Jaekel 1918
Stylophora
 Cornuta - Ceratocystidae
 Cornuta - Cothurnocystidae
Cothurnocystidae indet. Bather 1913
two different undescribed cothurnocystids
Edrioasteroidea
 Isorophida -
Protorophus hispanicus n. gen. n. sp.
Protorophus hispanicus n. gen. n. sp. Zamora and Smith 2010
 Rhombifera - Dibrachicystidae
Dibrachicystis purujoensis n. gen. n. sp.2 Zamora and Smith 2011
Eocrinoidea
  - Lichenoididae
 Gogiida - Eocrinidae
 Ascocystitida -
Eocystites sp. Billings 1868