Puente de Hierro section, 6m-8m (Cambrian of Spain)

Where: Spain (38.0° N, 4.8° W: paleocoordinates 55.7° S, 112.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lemdadella linaresae trilobite zone, 1 Member (Pedroche Formation), Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• Lower Ovetian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; sandstone and shale

• very fine-grained sandstone and siltstone.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: trace

Primary reference: J. A. G. Vintaned, E. Linan, E. Mayoral, M. E. Dies, R. Gozalo and F. Muñiz. 2006. Trace and soft body fossils from the Pedroche Formation (Ovetian, Lower Cambrian of the Sierra de Córdoba, S Spain) and their relation to the Pedroche event. Geobios (39)443-468 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153168: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 09.12.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Redlichiidae
Bilinichnus
  -
aff. Bilinichnus sp. Fedonkin and Palij 1979
Tiernavia
  -
aff. Tiernavia sp. Fedonkin 1985
 Ichnofossils -
Cochlichnus "ichnosp. A" Hitchcock 1858
Treptichnus bifurcus Miller 1889
Monocraterion sp. Torell 1870
Torrowangea sp. Webby 1970
Dactyloidites cabanasi Meléndez 1966
aff. Phycodes sp. Richter 1850
"Palaeophycus striatus" = Planolites striatus Hall 1852
Planolites annularis Walcott 1890
Planolites beverleyensis Billings 1862
Planolites montanus Richter 1937
Bergaueria perata Prantl 1946
Diplichnites sp. Dawson 1873
Skolithos sp. Haldemann 1840
Rusophycus didymus Salter 1856
Palaeophycus sp. Hall 1847
Palaeophycus cf. alternatus Pemberton and Frey 1982
Psammichnites gigas Torell 1868