Los Barrios de Luna Capa 2: Middle Cambrian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cincta - Gyrocystidae
Gyrocystis platessa Jaekel 1918
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:León
Coordinates: 42.9° North, 5.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:68.5° South, 11.5° West (Wright 2013)
Time
Period: Cambrian Epoch: Miaolingian
10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 3-4
Key time interval: Middle Cambrian Trilobite zone:  Solenopleuropsis thorali
Age range of interval: 509 - 497 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Oville Member:Genestosa
Local section:Los Barrios de Luna Local bed:180 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Oville Fm ranges from upper Caesaraugustian to Languedocian; this part of the Genestosa Member is Lower Languedocian (Cambrian Series 2).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: siltstone
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: They were preserved as natural molds; thus, they cannot be found in carbonates.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Lagerst�tten type:conservation
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:199045
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2019-01-21 22:18:12 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2019-01-21 22:18:12
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

67766. S. Zamora. 2009. Equinodermos del Cámbrico medio de las Cadenas Ibéricas y de la zona Cantábrica (Norte de España). 1-307 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]