Genicera (Carboniferous of Spain)

Where: Léon, Spain (43.0° N, 5.5° W: paleocoordinates 18.3° S, 6.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gnathodus semiglaber - Polygnathus communis conodont zone, Vegamian Formation, Ivorian (353.8 - 346.7 Ma)

• upper part of Vegamian Formation, Upper Tournaisian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

• black shales

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Gandl. 1973. Die Karbon-Trilobiten des Kantabrischen Gebirges (NW-Spanien) 1: Die Trilobiten der Vegamian-Schichten (Ober-Tournai) [Carboniferous trilobites of the Cantabrian Cordillera (NW Spain) 1: Trilobites of the Vegamian Formation (Upper Tournaisian)]. Senckenbergiana lethaea 54(1):21-63 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67110: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.11.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Proetida - Brachymetopidae
Brachymetopus cf. maccoyi
Brachymetopus cf. maccoyi Portlock 1843 trilobite
subspecies spinimarginatus
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
"Cyrtosymbole (Waribole) morata n. sp." = Waribole, "? Cyrtosymbole (Waribole) sp." = Waribole, Reediella cf. granifera, Archegonus (Philliboloides) aff. glassi, Archegonus (Philliboloides) cantabricus n. sp., Paladin wiprinsi n. sp.
"Cyrtosymbole (Waribole) morata n. sp." = Waribole trilobite
"? Cyrtosymbole (Waribole) sp." = Waribole Richter and Richter 1926 trilobite
sp. T
Paladin wiprinsi n. sp. trilobite