Villech 5, Comabella Fm (Devonian of Spain)

Where: Spain (42.3° N, 1.7° E: paleocoordinates 40.9° S, 32.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: costatus conodont zone, Comabella Formation, Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• Early Eifelian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: nodular, gray, red limestone and condensed, red, calcareous shale

• nodular reddish and grayish limestone and condensed red shaly beds

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collected by Gouwy, Liao, Valenzuele-Rios in 2008- 2009

Collection methods: acetic

• collection is kept at the Biology Department of the University of Valencia (Burjasot)

Primary reference: S. Gouwy, J. C. Liao, and J. I. Valenzuela-Rios. 2013. Eifelian (Middle Devonian) to lower Frasnian (Upper Devonian) conodont biostratigraphy in the Villech section, Spanish Central Pyrenees. Bulletin of Geosciences 88(2):315-338 [S. Gouwy/S. Gouwy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144459: authorized by Sofie Gouwy, entered by Sofie Gouwy on 08.05.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Prioniodontida - Icriodontidae
Icriodus sp. Branson and Mehl 1938 conodont
 Ozarkodinida - Polygnathidae
Polygnathus sp. Hinde 1879 conodont
Polygnathus costatus Klapper 1971 conodont
Polygnathus angusticostatus Wittekindt 1966 conodont
Polygnathus linguiformis Hinde 1879 conodont
spp. linguiformis (2)