Horizon C. Sierra de Tamames (Ordovician of Spain)

Where: Salamanca, Spain (41.0° N, 6.0° W: paleocoordinates 71.9° S, 80.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Didymograptus artus graptolite zone, La Bastida Shales Formation, Oretanian (468.0 - 459.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, sandy shale and lithified sandstone

• Sandy shales intercalated with quartzite and sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. C. Gutiérrez-Marco and I. Rabano. 1983. Bioestratigrafia de las pizarras ordovicicas en la Sierra de Tamames, Sinclinal de Sequeros-Ahigal de los Aceiteros, Provincia de Salamanca. Col-Pa 38:13-25 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 198819: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 13.01.2019

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Taxonomic list

Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Didymograptidae
Expansograptus sp. Bouček and Přibyl 1953 graptolite
? Aulograptus sp. graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Didymograptus (Didymograptus) sp. M'Coy 1851 graptolite
Didymograptus (Didymograptus) artus Elles and Wood 1901 graptolite
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Orthidae
"Monorthis noctilio" = Sivorthis noctilio
"Monorthis noctilio" = Sivorthis noctilio Sharpe 1849
Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Cephalopoda
 Orthoceratoidea -
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Sinuitidae
"Sinuites (Sinuites) hispanica" = Sinuites hispanicus
"Sinuites (Sinuites) hispanica" = Sinuites hispanicus Born 1916 snail
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
"Neseuretus (Neseuretus) cf. tristani" = Neseuretus tristani
"Neseuretus (Neseuretus) cf. tristani" = Neseuretus tristani Brongniart in Desmarest 1817 trilobite