La Vid (Devonian of Spain)

Where: Castilla y Leon, Spain (42.9° N, 5.6° W: paleocoordinates 47.6° S, 35.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: La Pedrosa Formation (La Vid Group), Early/Lower Emsian (409.1 - 402.5 Ma)

• beds 15-25

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal ramp; lithified limestone and lithified marl

• inner- to mid-ramp
• bioclastic and silty limestones, mudstones, shales and marls

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Schemm-Gregory. 2010. Leonispirifer leonensis gen. et sp. nov., a rare delthyridoid spiriferid brachiopod from northern Spain (Brachiopoda, Lower Devonian). Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 84:345-364 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101678: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.12.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Eodevonariidae
Renaudia mainensis
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Reticulariidae
Corylispirifer subsulcatus
 Spiriferida - Filispiriferidae
Leonispirifer leonensis n. gen. n. sp., Filispirifer fallax
Leonispirifer leonensis n. gen. n. sp. Schemm-Gregory 2010
 Spiriferida - Hysterolitidae
Euryspirifer ex gr. pellicoi, Arduspirifer cf. prolatestriatus
 Terebratulida - Meganterididae
Xana bubo