Also known as La Bastida Shales Fm., Sierra de Tamames, Salamanca, Spain

Where: Salamanca, Spain (41.0° N, 6.0° W: paleocoordinates 71.9° S, 80.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Didymograptus artus graptolite zone, La Bastida Shales Formation, Oretanian (468.0 - 459.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, sandy shale and lithified sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. C. Gutiérrez-Marco and I. Rabano. 1983. Bioestratigrafia de las pizarras ordovicicas en la Sierra de Tamames, Sinclinal de Sequeros-Ahigal de los Aceiteros, Provincia de Salamanca. Col-Pa 38:13-25 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21092: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 17.06.2002, edited by Pete Wagner

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