Acebrón stream section, 10 km south of Ventas con Pena Aguilera (Ordovician of Spain)

Also known as VPA

Where: Toledo, Spain (39.5° N, 4.2° W: paleocoordinates 72.9° S, 86.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Didymograptus artus graptolite zone, Neseuretus tristani Shale Member (Navas de Estena Formation), Oretanian (468.0 - 459.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, concretionary, ferruginous, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous, cherty/siliceous shale and lithified limestone

• Argillaceous, dark, fossiliferous shale with occasional nodular chert, limestone and iron

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: J. Reyes-Abril, E. Villas, and J. C. Gutiérrez-Marco. 2010. Orthid brachiopods from the Middle Ordovician of the Central Iberian Zone, Spain. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 55(2):285-308 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 166758: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 25.02.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Orthidae
Orthambonites sp., Paralenorthis alata, Sivorthis noctilio
Orthambonites sp. Pander 1830
Paralenorthis alata de Sowerby and Murchison 1839
Sivorthis noctilio Sharpe 1849
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Placoparia (Placoparia) cambriensis