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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Pterobranchia | |
Expansograptus sp. Bouček and Přibyl 1953 graptolite
? Aulograptus sp. graptolite | |
Didymograptus (Didymograptus) sp. M'Coy 1851 graptolite
Didymograptus (Didymograptus) artus Elles and Wood 1901 graptolite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Monorthis noctilio" = Sivorthis noctilio
"Monorthis noctilio" = Sivorthis noctilio Sharpe 1849 | |
Bivalvia | |
Redonia deshayesi clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Orthocerida indet. Kuhn 1940 | |
Gastropoda | |
"Sinuites (Sinuites) hispanica" = Sinuites hispanicus
"Sinuites (Sinuites) hispanica" = Sinuites hispanicus Born 1916 snail | |
Trilobita | |
Ectillaenus giganteus trilobite | |
Placoparia (Placoparia) cambriensis Hicks 1875 trilobite | |
"Neseuretus (Neseuretus) cf. tristani" = Neseuretus tristani
"Neseuretus (Neseuretus) cf. tristani" = Neseuretus tristani Brongniart in Desmarest 1817 trilobite |