La Hoya Formation, Tabuenca area, Aragon, Spain (Devonian of Spain)

Where: Aragon, Spain (41.7° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 30.4° S, 16.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: La Hoya Formation, Early/Lower Famennian (376.1 - 370.6 Ma)

• "Falcitornoceras sp. proves early Famennian (Nehdenian) age."

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale and sandstone

• see lithology
• "The La Hoya Fmn (525m) consists of shales with more widely spaced quartzite units...Planktonic fossils are less abundant than before [i.e. Bolloncillos fmn] and most stem from the basal part of the formation, where they are concentrated in centimetric layers...The sandstones and quartzites show channelling, microconglomerates, ripples and cross-bedding. Medusoid impressions of large diamter are found on some quartzites. These arenaceous units show the proximity of a lowland source area."

Primary reference: P. Carls. 1988. The Devonian of Celtiberia (Spain) and Devonian paleogeography of SW Europe. In N. J. McMillan, A. F. Embry, D. J. Glass (eds.), Devonian of the World, Volume I 421-466 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 40501: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 24.06.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Tornoceratidae
Falcitornoceras sp.
Falcitornoceras sp. House and Price 1985 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Posidoniidae
"Posidonia" venusta
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Trimerocephalus sp.
Trimerocephalus sp. M'Coy 1849 trilobite