FBlIIB. Peña del Tormo (Ordovician of Spain)

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, Pena del Tormo Member (Fombuena Formation), Berounian (457.9 - 449.8 Ma)

• Gutierrez-Marco refers to this as Piedra del Tormo member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; ooidal, sandy, calcareous slate and metamorphosed sandstone

• Quartzitic slate intercalated with quartzite, occasional oolites and calcarenites

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. C. Gutiérrez-Marco, J. Chauvel, and B. Meléndez. 1996. Nuevos equinodermos (cistideos y blastozoos) del Ordovícico de la Cordi llera Ibérica (NE España). Revista Española de Paleontología 11(1):100-119 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196901: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 12.10.2018

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Taxonomic list

• Primarily articulate brachiopod biostrat. and taxonomy with others listed for biostrat.
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Prionocheilus sp. Rouault 1847 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
"? Zetillaenus sp." = Dysplanus (Zetillaenus)
"? Zetillaenus sp." = Dysplanus (Zetillaenus) Snajdr 1957 trilobite
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Ptilodictyidae
"Disteichia reticulata" = Clathropora reticulata
"Disteichia reticulata" = Clathropora reticulata Sharpe 1853
  - Phylloporinidae
 Trepostomata - Trematoporidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Aegiromenidae
Aegiromena aquila Barrande 1848
Aegiromena aquila intermedia
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Rostricellula ambigena
[Rostricellula ambigea]
 Orthida - Giraldiellidae
Gelidorthis meloui Villas 1985
 Orthida - Chrustenoporidae
 Orthida - Draboviidae
 Orthida - Saukrodictyidae
 Orthida - Heterorthidae
Svobodaina armoricana Babin and Mélou 1972
Pterobranchia
 Dendroidea - Acanthograptidae
 Dendroidea - Dendrograptidae
Dendrograptus sp. Hall 1858 graptolite
  - Cyclograptidae
 Rhombifera - Caryocystitidae
 Rhombifera - Rhombiferidae
Rhombifera bohemica Barrande 1867
Rhombifera
 Hemicosmitoida - Caryocrinitidae
Blastoidea
 Coronata - Stephanocrinidae
Mespilocystites lemenni n. sp. Gutiérrez-Marco et al. 1996 blastoid
 Sphaeronitida - Aristocystitidae