Bayo Mbr, Sueve Shale Fm., Ribadesella, Oviedo, Spain (Ordovician to of Spain)

Where: Oviedo, Spain (43.0° N, 5.0° W: paleocoordinates 70.0° S, 80.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Bayo Member (Sueve Shale Formation), Oretanian to Oretanian (468.0 - 459.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, micaceous sandstone and lithified, gray, calcareous shale

• Fine-grained, micaceous, rippled sandstone intercalated with minor thin-bedded, limolitic, dark grey shales

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. C. GutiƩrrez-Marco, R. Albani, C. Aramburu, C. Babin, J. C. Garcia-Ramos, I. Mendez-Bedia, I. Rabano, J. Truyols, J. M. C. Vannier and E. Villas. 1996. Bioestratigrafia de la formacion pizarras del Sueve (Ordovicico medio) en el sector septentrional de la escama de Laviana-Sueve (zona Cantabrica, norte de Espana). Revista Espanola de Paleontologia 11(1):48-74 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/O. Alfaro]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21096: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 17.06.2002

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Ostracoda
 Hollinocopida - Tetradellidae
Ogmoopsis sp. ostracod
 Beyrichicopida - Bolliidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Placoparia sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Salterocoryphe sp. Hammann 1977 trilobite
Neseuretus sp. Hicks 1873 trilobite
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Colpocoryphe sp. Novak and Perner 1918 trilobite
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Crozonaspis sp. Henry 1968 trilobite
 Phacopida - Acastidae
Phacopidina sp. Bancroft and Lamont 1949 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Ectillaenus sp. Salter 1867 trilobite
Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Redonia sp. Rouault 1851 clam
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Pseudolingulidae
Pseudolingula sp. Mickwitz 1909
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
Elegantilites sp. Marek 1966
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite
 Sphaeronitida - Aristocystitidae
Calix sp. Rouault 1878