Where: Zaragoza, Spain (41.1° N, 1.2° W: paleocoordinates 72.6° S, 84.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Svobodaina armoricana brachiopod zone, Huerva Member (Fombuena Formation), Berounian (457.9 - 449.8 Ma)

• Locally called the "Upper iron oolite and bryozoan marls"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, argillaceous sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• During the deposition of this bed, the brachiopod shells did not suffer size sorting or fragmentation but were disarticulated. Trilobite exoskeletons and pelmatozoan calyces and columns also underwent disarticulation, and their remains occur beside abundant fragments of more fragile finely branched bryozoans. Despite this general disarticulation, deposition of the enclosing sand seems to have been very rapid, as the occurrence of complete crinoid crowns with finely branched arms suggests. Most fossil remains in this horizon, apart from the crinoid crowns, have probably been transported.

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: E. Villas. 1992. New Caradoc brachiopods from the Iberian Chains (northeastern Spain) and their stratigraphic significance. Journal of Paleontology 66(5):772-793 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 166728: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 24.02.2015

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