Santa Catalina Hill. 08 meters (Ordovician to of Spain)

Where: Zaragoza, Spain (41.1° N, 1.2° W: paleocoordinates 72.6° S, 84.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pena del Tormo Member (Fombuena Formation), Berounian to Berounian (457.9 - 455.8 Ma)

• Locally called the "Upper iron oolite and bryozoan marls"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sand shoal; lithified, concretionary, ferruginous grainstone and lithified, shelly/skeletal, silty, conglomeratic shale

• Iron-rich, pellitic oolites and intraformational nodules grading into bryozoan-rich, marly and partly silty shales with some quartzite pebbles

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: E. Villas. 1992. New Caradoc brachiopods from the Iberian Chains (northeastern Spain) and their stratigraphic significance. Journal of Paleontology 66(5):772-793 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21089: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 17.06.2002, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Primarily articulate brachiopod taxonomy with others listed for biostrat.
Pterobranchia
 Dendroidea - Acanthograptidae
Callograptus sp. graptolite
not in Villas 1992
Conodonta
 Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Icriodella sp. conodont
not in Villas 1992
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
not in Villas 1992
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
 Strophomenida - Leptestiidae
Leangella sp. Opik 1933
not in Villas 1992
 Strophomenida - Aegiromenidae
Aegiromena aquila Barrande 1848
Aegiromena aquila intermedia
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Draboviidae
Drabovia "sp. 1" Havlicek 1950
 Orthida - Chrustenoporidae
 Orthida - Saukrodictyidae
Saukrodictya tormoensis n. sp. Villas 1992
 Orthida - Heterorthidae
Svobodaina armoricana Babin and Mélou 1972
 Orthida - Harknessellidae
Horderleyella sp. Bancroft 1928
not in Villas 1992
Reuschella herreraensis n. sp. Villas 1992
 Orthida - Giraldiellidae
Gelidorthis meloui Villas 1985
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Hebertella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
not in Villas 1992
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Rostricellula marciali n. sp. Villas 1992