Where: Guadalajara, Spain (40.4° N, 3.7° W: paleocoordinates 51.3° S, 35.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Al-4 Member (Alcolea Formation), Pridoli to Pridoli (423.0 - 393.3 Ma)
• "The presence of eosteinhornensis s.l. Biozone conodonts well 400 m below the first fauna described here [i.e. fauna I] confines the pre-Devonian faunas [i.e. I-III and part of IV] to the latest Silurian." "probably the S-D boundary is situated withihn [fauna IV]" Material from fauna IV from float, so hard to place stratigraphically.
Environment/lithology: marine; silty sandstone and sandy shale
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 13929: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 03.05.2002
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Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Orthoceratidae indet. M'Coy 1844 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Grammysia sp. de Verneuil 1847 clam | |
Pteronitella sp. Billings 1874 oyster
Actinopteria sp. Hall 1884 oyster | |
Nuculites sp. Conrad 1841 clam | |
Lophophorata | |
Tentaculites sp. von Schlotheim 1820 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
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Rhynchonellidae indet. Gray 1848 | |
"Camarotoechia nucula" = Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula
"Camarotoechia nucula" = Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula Sowerby 1839 | |
Strophomenata | |
Leptostrophia sp.B Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Shaleria sp. Caster 1939 | |
Trilobita | |
Homalonotidae indet. Chapman 1890 trilobite |