Macao (Ordovician to of Portugal)

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

• Dark pyritic mudstone with pyritic nodules

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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Taxonomic list

• This is Young's (1985) Praeleda Association Phase 2
Trilobita
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Selenopeltis sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Harpetida - Harpetidae
Eoharpes sp. Raymond 1905 trilobite
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Colpocoryphe grandis Snajdr 1956 trilobite
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Crozonaspis chauveli Henry 1980 trilobite
Dalmanitina aff. acuta Hammann 1971 trilobite
Dalmanitina n.sp. aff. acuta
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Heterorthidae
 Orthida - Tyronellidae
? Tyronella sp. Mitchell 1977
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Pseudolingulidae
Pseudolingula sp. Mickwitz 1909
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Cardiolariidae
"Praeleda sp." = Deceptrix
"Praeleda sp." = Deceptrix Fuchs 1919 clam
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
? Sluha sp. Barrande 1881 clam
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Glyptarca "sp. A" Hicks 1873 clam
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Diplograptidae
"? Climacograptus bekkeri" = Oepikograptus bekkeri
"? Climacograptus bekkeri" = Oepikograptus bekkeri Öpik 1927 graptolite