Fauna s3e-gamma, Badenas Fmn., E. Iberian Chains (Silurian of Spain)

Where: Spain (41.6° N, 0.9° W: paleocoordinates 64.2° S, 48.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: shale-3e Member (Badenas Formation), Ludlow (427.4 - 423.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale and sandstone

• "...145 m. dark fine shales w/ arenaceous intercalations with current marks. Shelly fossils and graptolites occur only in sandstones in the middle of submember s3e-gamma at the end of an arenaceous interval, about 20 m below top of formation."

Primary reference: P. Carls. 1977. Spain. in A. Martisson, ed. The Silurian-Devonian boundary (IUGS, Series A, Number 5). Schweizerbarth'sche, Stuttgart. 143-158 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13918: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 03.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Orthoceratitidae indet.
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Monograptidae
Monograptus fritschi, Monograptus dubius
Monograptus dubius graptolite
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Actinopteria sp.
Actinopteria sp. Hall 1884 oyster
 Cyrtodontida - Antipleuridae
Panenka sp.
Panenka sp. Barrande 1881 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
"Camarotoechia nucula" = Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula
"Camarotoechia nucula" = Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula Sowerby 1839
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 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella cf. elegans
Howellella cf. elegans Muir-Wood 1925
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida -
Strophochonetes sp.L n. sp.
Strophochonetes sp.L n. sp. Muir-Wood 1962