Renanué Bed 25 (Devonian of Spain)

Also known as Pont de Suert

Where: Cataluña, Spain (42.4° N, 0.8° E: paleocoordinates 37.0° S, 27.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Polygnathus varcus conodont zone, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• "Lower Polygnathus varcus and the basal part of the Middle varcus conodont Zones"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, nodular limestone

• section consists of limestones and marly limestones, sometimes nodular

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: "obtained by chemical preparation"

•Universitat de València collection (MGUV)

Primary reference: M. Ginter, J.-C. Liao, and J. I. Valenzuela-Rios. 2008. New data on chondrichthyan microremains from the Givetian of the Renanue section in the Aragonian Pyrenees (Spain). Acta Geologica Polonica 58(2):165-172 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90633: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 11.08.2009

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Antarctilamniformes - Antarctilamnidae
? Antarctilamna sp. Young 1982 elasmobranch
 Phoebodontiformes - Phoebodontidae
Phoebodus fastigatus Ginter and Ivanov 1992 elasmobranch