Also known as Neseuretus tristani Shale Fm., Toledo Mountains, Toledo, Spain

Where: Toledo, Spain (39.0° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 73.3° S, 87.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Didymograptus murchisoni zone, Neseuretus tristani Shale Member (Navas de Estena Formation), Oretanian (468.0 - 459.0 Ma)

• Also called Tristani Shales

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, concretionary, ferruginous, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous, cherty/siliceous shale and lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. C. Gutiérrez-Marco, I. Rabano, M. Prieto and J. Martin. 1984. Estudio bioestratigrafico del Llanvirn y Llandeilo (Dobrotiviense) en la parte meridional de la zona Centroiberica (España). Cuadernos de Geología Ibèrica 9:287-319 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 20899: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 12.06.2002, edited by Pete Wagner

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