La Peña del Tormo section, 600 m west of Fombuena (Ordovician of Spain)

Also known as South of the Badules-Luesma local road

Where: Zaragoza, Spain (41.2° N, 1.2° W: paleocoordinates 73.7° S, 77.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: La Peña Member (Cystoid Limestone Formation), Katian (453.0 - 445.2 Ma)

• very base of section.

•Villas (1985), Hammann (1992), Vennin et al. (1998), Jiménez-Sánchez et al. (2007) and Jiménez-Sánchez (in press) provide a detailed description of the Cystoid Limestone Formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone and shale

• alteration of marly limestone and shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Bryozoans sectioned.

Primary reference: A. Jiménez-Sánchez, R. L. Anstey, and B. Azanza. 2010. Description and phylogenetic analysis of Iberostomata fombuenensis new genus and species (Bryozoa, Ptilodictyina). Journal of Paleontology 84(4):695-708 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154242: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 04.02.2014, edited by Björn Kröger

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Taxonomic list

Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Ceramoporidae
Ceramoporella inclinata Jiménez-Sánchez 2009
  - Phylloporinidae
Pseudohornera sp. Roemer 1876
 Cryptostomata - Arthrostylidae
Moyerella sp. Nekhoroshev 1956
 Cryptostomata - Rhinidictyidae
Iberostomata fombuenensis n. gen. n. sp. Jiménez-Sánchez et al. 2010
Prophyllodictya javieri Jiménez-Sánchez 2009
 Cryptostomata - Stictoporellidae
Pseudostictoporella iberiensis Jiménez-Sánchez 2009
 Trepostomata - Halloporidae