Molino Bajo. 8 meters (Ordovician to of Spain)

Where: Zaragoza, Spain (41.2° N, 1.1° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 79.8° S, 9.0° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pena del Tormo Member (Fombuena Formation), Berounian to Berounian (457.9 - 455.8 Ma)

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sand shoal; lithified, concretionary, ferruginous grainstone and lithified, shelly/skeletal, silty, conglomeratic shale

• Iron-rich, pellitic oolites and intraformational nodules grading into bryozoan-rich, marly and partly silty shales with some quartzite pebbles.

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•At this section the Pefia del Tormo Member lacks the marly beds with bryozoans that characterize the unit southwest of this outcrop, including the two former sections. The basal ironstone is only 45 cm thick and is immediately succeeded by the alternating sandstones and shales of the Huerva Member.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 166736: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 24.02.2015

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Taxonomic list

• Primarily articulate brachiopod taxonomy with others listed for biostrat.
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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Rostricellula ambigena