outcrop located on the road from Mação to Aboboreira, near Pereiro village: Berounian, Portugal
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Trilobita
- Proetida
- Brachymetopidae
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Radnoria aff. simplex
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= Radnoria guyi
Pereira et al. 2015
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Geography
| Country: | Portugal | State/province: | Mação |
| Coordinates: | 39.6° North, 8.0° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 75.1° South, 66.7° East |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 4-5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Berounian | Trilobite zone: | Crozonaspis dujardini-Deanaspis seunesi |
| Age range of interval: | 458.50000 - 449.70000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Cabeço do Peão | Member: | Queixopêrra |
| Regional section: | Formation | Regional bed: | 20 m |
| Regional order: | bottom to top | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | bioturbation,micaceous lithified mudstone |
| Lithology description: bioturbated and highly fossiliferous micaceous mudstones | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:The Queixopêrra Member is highly fossiliferous, rich in trilobites, brachiopods, bryozoans and echinoderms. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 171809 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Wagner | Enterer: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-07-20 18:48:33 | Last modified: | 2015-07-20 18:48:33 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-07-20 18:48:33 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 55846. | S. Pereira, C. Marques da Silva, and A. A. 2014. New Insights on Ancient Life, XII. Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores en Paleontología, Sobrarbe 43-46 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 55845 | S. Pereira, C. Marques da Silva, M. Pires and A. Abreu. 2015. The oldest brachymetopid trilobite record from the European peri-Gondwana. Bulletin of Geosciences 90(3) [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |