Archaeocyaths, Ossa-Morena, Cordoba (Cambrian of Spain)

Also known as Reef 1756

Where: Córdoba, Spain (37.9° N, 4.8° W: paleocoordinates 55.9° S, 111.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pedroche Formation (Ossa-Morena Group), Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• Lower Ovetian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified framestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, peel or thin section

Primary reference: A. Perejón and E. Moreno-Eiris. 2007. Ovetian cryptic archaeocyaths, lower Cambrian from Las Ermitas (Córdoba, Spain). Hubann, B. & Piller, W. E. (Eds.)2007: Fossil Corals and Sponges: Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera, Graz 2003.- Österr. Akad. Wiss., Schriftenr. Erdwiss. Komm. 17:113-137 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78585: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Falko Reichel on 11.02.2008, edited by Uta Merkel

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Archaeocyatha
 Archaeocyathida - Eremitacyathidae
Eremitacyathus fixus archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Loculicyathidae
Neoloculicyathus magnus archaeocyath sponge
Okulitchicyathus andalusicus archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida -
Archaeocyathina indet. Okulitch 1935 archaeocyath sponge
gen. et sp. indet.
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeopharetridae
Archaeopharetra sp. archaeocyath sponge
Protopharetra gemmata archaeocyath sponge
Protopharetra sp. Bornemann 1884 archaeocyath sponge
Protopharetra circula archaeocyath sponge
Protopharetra grandicaveata archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Dictyocyathidae
Dictyocyathus stipatus archaeocyath sponge
Dictyocyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Monocyathida - Tumuliolynthidae
Tumuliolynthus sp. Zhuravleva 1963 archaeocyath sponge
 Monocyathida - Monocyathidae
Archaeolynthus polaris archaeocyath sponge
Archaeolynthus sp. Taylor 1910 archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Asterocyathidae
Erismacoscinus sp. Debrenne 1958 archaeocyath sponge
Retecoscinus guadalquivirensis archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Kymbecyathidae
? Urcyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
Urcyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Dokidocyathidae
Dokidocyathus avesiculoides archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Dokidocyathellidae
Dokidocyathella indet. Zhuravleva 1960 archaeocyath sponge
gen. et sp. indet.
 Ajacicyathida - Cordobicyathidae
Cordobicyathus deserti archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Bronchocyathidae
Morenicyathus cordobae archaeocyath sponge
Morenicyathus arruzafai archaeocyath sponge
Taylorcyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Ajacicyathidae
Rotundocyathus sp. Vologdin 1960 archaeocyath sponge
Sibirecyathus sp. Vologdin 1937 archaeocyath sponge
Nochoroicyathus sp. Zhuravleva 1951 archaeocyath sponge
3xsp. 1; 1xsp. 2; sp. 3; sp. 4
Nochoroicyathus cabanasi archaeocyath sponge
Nochoroicyathus cf. eremitae archaeocyath sponge
Nochoroicyathus simoni n. sp. archaeocyath sponge
Nochoroicyathus tkatschenkoi archaeocyath sponge
Nochoroicyathus cf. umbrella archaeocyath sponge
Nochoroicyathus valdegrajensis archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Densocyathidae
? Leptosocyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Fallocyathidae
Fallocyathus pedrochei archaeocyath sponge
 Capsulocyathida - Coscinocyathidae
Coscinocyathus sp. Bornemann 1884 archaeocyath sponge
Renalcis
  - Chabakoviacea
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
Epiphyton
  - Ludloviaceae
Epiphyton sp. Bornemann 1886