Also known as Upper unit, Cacemes Fm., Bucaco Syncline, Marao, Portugal

Where: Marao, Portugal (41.0° N, 8.0° W: paleocoordinates 73.1° S, 71.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Fonte da Horta Formation (Cacemes Group), Dobrotivian (459.0 - 457.9 Ma)

• Upper unit is the Fonte da Horta formation now

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. L. Henry, M. Melou, J. Nion, F. Paris, M. Robardet, D. Skevington, and D. Thadeu. 1976. L'apport de Graptolites de la Zone a G. teretiusculus dans la datation de faunes benthiques lusitano-armoricaines. Annales - Societe Geologique du Nord 96(4):275-281 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21012: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 14.06.2002, edited by Pete Wagner

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