CAC3. Bucaco Syncline (Ordovician of Portugal)

Where: Portugal (40.0° N, 8.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 80.2° S, 25.0° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Glyptograptus teretiusculus graptolite zone, Fonte da Horta Formation, Dobrotivian (461.0 - 459.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified mudstone and lithified sandstone

• Mudstones with occasional interbedded sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: T. P. Young. 1985. The stratigraphy of the Upper Ordovician of central Portugal. University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 193326: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 11.05.2018

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
"Neseuretus (Neseuretus) tristani" = Neseuretus tristani
"Neseuretus (Neseuretus) tristani" = Neseuretus tristani Brongniart in Desmarest 1817 trilobite
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Crozonaspis struvei Henry 1968 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Ectillaenus sp. Salter 1867 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Heterorthidae
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Pseudolingulidae
? Pseudolingula sp. Mickwitz 1909
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae