Also known as Valdemorillo Shale Fm., Pozuelos de Calatrava, Cuidad Real, Spain

Where: Cuidad Real, Spain (39.0° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 74.5° S, 83.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Placoparia tournemini trilobite zone, Valdemorillo Shale Formation, Dobrotivian (459.0 - 457.9 Ma)

• Given as Middle part of the Guindo Shales, late Lower Llandeilo (top of the Tournemini Biozone).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. Babin and J. C. Gutiérrez-Marco. 1991. Middle Ordovician bivalves from Spain and their phyletic and palaeogeographic significance. Palaeontology 34:109-147 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 20916: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 12.06.2002

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