Playa del Cordial, One km SE of Cabo Vidrias (Ordovician of Spain)

Where: Asturias, Spain (43.6° N, 6.0° W: paleocoordinates 69.3° S, 79.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: El Castro Formation, Llanvirn (466.0 - 460.9 Ma)

• Was dated Kralodvorian-Kosovian; Truyols et al. (1996) changed it to Llanvirn

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, volcaniclastic claystone

• Tuffs, lapilli, and lithic tuffs

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Villas, J. Gisbert, and R. Montesinos. 1989. Brachiopods from volcanoclastic Middle and Upper Ordovician of Asturias (northern Spain). Journal of Paleontology 63(5):554-565 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21085: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 17.06.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Brachiopod taxonomy and biostrat., with trilobite biostrat.
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Glyptomenidae
Hesperinia asturica n. sp. Villas et al. 1989
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Mcewanella vulcanica n. sp. Villas et al. 1989
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
Eospirifer sp. Schuchert 1913
Julivert and Truyols (1972)
Stenolaemata
  - Phylloporinidae
Chasmatoporella sp. Nekhoroshev 1936
Spjeldnaes (1967)
Trilobita
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Leonaspis sp. Richter and Richter 1917 trilobite
Radig (1962)
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene sp. Shirley 1936 trilobite
Julivert and Truyols (1972)
Conodonta
  -
Trichonodella sp. Branson and Branson 1947 conodont
Julivert and Truyols (1972)