Villaseca, Villablino Basin, Leon (Carboniferous to of Spain)

Where: Spain (42.9° N, 6.3° W: paleocoordinates 8.3° S, 8.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Namurian to Namurian (330.9 - 307.5 Ma)

• Middle Namurian-Westphalian B

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

• brakish or fully marine

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. Sampelayo and A. Sampelayo. 1947. Fauna Carbonifera de Villablino (Leon) [Carboniferous fauna of Villablino (Leon)]. Notas y Comunicaciones del Instituto Geologico y Minero de Espana 17:3-24 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 73364: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Naiadites sp., Posidoniella minor, Posidoniella multirugata
Naiadites sp. Dawson 1860 clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Lithodomus sp." = Lithophaga
"Lithodomus sp." = Lithophaga Röding 1798 mussel
 Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
Anthracomya sp.
Anthracomya sp. Salter 1862 clam