Torcas (Cambrian of Spain)

Where: Spain (41.1° N, 1.5° W: paleocoordinates 55.6° S, 111.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Eccaparadoxides macrocercus trilobite zone, Torcas Formation, Middle Cambrian (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)

• Eccaparadoxides macrocercus Zone (late Languedocian), uppermost middle Cambrian Torcas Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; brown siltstone

• brownish siltstones

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Reposited at MPZ

Primary reference: R. Schroeder. 1973. Carpoideen aus dem Mittelkambrium Nordspaniens. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 141(5-6):119-142 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 193777: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 05.06.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cincta
  - Sucocystidae
"? Gyrocystis melendezi n. sp." = Undatacinctus melendezi
"? Gyrocystis melendezi n. sp." = Undatacinctus melendezi Schroeder 1973