Also known as northern flank of the Valdelacasa anticline on the western end of the Toledo Mountains
Where: Castile-La Mancha, Spain (39.6° N, 5.0° W: paleocoordinates 51.8° S, 109.9° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Member (Pusa Shale Formation), Tommotian (525.5 - 521.0 Ma)
• ... a short distance down-section, Palacios et al. (2002) reported the acritarch Comasphaeridium velvetum, a taxon described from the Mazowsze formation of Poland (Moczydlowska, 1991) in strata correlatable to the late Nemakit-Daldynian or early Tommotian.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; mudstone and fine-grained siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. Martà Mus, T. Palacios, and S. Jensen. 2008. Size of the earliest mollusks: did small helcionellids grow to become large adults?. Geology 36(2):175-178 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 78611: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 11.02.2008
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Taxonomic list
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