Also known as Puertollano
Where: Castilla-La Manacha, Spain (38.7° N, 4.1° W: paleocoordinates 8.7° S, 9.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Stephanian C (301.0 - 300.4 Ma)
• single bedding plane
•Amphibian bed above coal seam III
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression, trace
Collected in 1994
Primary reference: R. Soler-Gijón and J. J. Moratalla. 2001. Fish and tetrapod trace fossils from the Upper Carboniferous of Puertollano, Spain. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 171(1-2):1-28 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/S. Fasey]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 75090: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.2007, edited by Emma Dunne and Sophie Fasey
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Paramblypterus sp. Blot 1966 | |
Bourbonnella sp. Heyler 1967 | |
Elonichthys sp. Giebel 1848 ray-finned fish | |
Amphibia | |
Puertollanopus omicrodactylus n. gen. n. sp.
Puertollanopus omicrodactylus n. gen. n. sp. Soler-Gijón and Moratalla 2001 tetrapod | |
Iberospondylus schultzei n. gen. n. sp.
Iberospondylus schultzei n. gen. n. sp. Laurin and Soler-Gijón 2001 tetrapod PU-ANF 14 (Holotype: complete skull, 14cm long), PU-ANF15 (partial skull), and PU-ANF 2 (partial skull)
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Undichna | |
Undichna unisulca de Gibert et al. 1999
Undichna brittanica Higgs 1988 |