Also known as Carregueira - Schistes a Orthis berthoisi? Fm., Macao, Portugal

Where: Portugal (39.0° N, 8.0° W: paleocoordinates 75.7° S, 66.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Carregueira Formation, Dobrotivian to Dobrotivian (459.0 - 449.8 Ma)

• Zone 4 age of author; strata known both as "Carregueira Fm." and "Schistes a Orthis berthoisi?" PJW: Schistes a Orthis berthoisi is the old name for Cabeço do Peão and Ribeira da Laje formations. However, re-reading Young, this should be the Carregueira.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, concretionary, pyritic mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: T. P. Young. 1985. The stratigraphy of the Upper Ordovician of central Portugal. University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 20931: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 12.06.2002

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