Cueli (Permian to of Spain)

Where: San Tirso, Spain (43.3° N, 6.0° W: paleocoordinates 1.7° S, 12.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Villaviciosa beds Formation, Autunian to Autunian (298.9 - 290.1 Ma)

• The upper rock unit, the Villaviciosa beds (Martinez Garcia 1981), consists of c. 600m of sandstones, mudstones, conglomerates and volcanics.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; fine-grained, medium, brown, yellow sandstone and mudstone

• These floral remains occur as imprints and carbon stains on light coloured, yellowish brown, fine to medium-grained sandstones with mud partings. The sandstones are thinly bedded with parallel and cross laminated.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, original carbon

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. H. Wagner and E. Martinez Garcia. 1982. Description of an Early Permian flora from Asturias and comments on similar occurrences in the Iberian Penisula. Trabajos de Geologia, Universidad de Oviedo 12:273-287 [H. Sims/S. Ostrowski/J. Cassara]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11171: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 23.07.2001, edited by Alistair McGowan

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
fragments of silicifed wood
Peltaspermopsida
 Peltaspermales - Peltaspermaceae
cf. Callipteris conferta Sternberg 1833
(Sternberg) Brongniart
 Radiatopses - Medullosaceae
Neuropteris sp. Brongniart 1828
Lebachia
  -
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
Taeniopteris cf. fallax cycads
Goeppert