Upper Carboniferous fauna from Demues Spain, Demues Fm: Kasimovian, Spain
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
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Anthozoa indet.
Ehrenberg 1834
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Demospongiae
- Agelasida
- Thaumastocoeliidae
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Sollasia sp.
Steinmann 1882
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Demospongiae
- Agelasida
- Sebargasiidae
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Amblysiphonella sp.
Steinmann 1882
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Demospongiae
- Agelasida
- Guadalupiidae
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Discosiphonella sp.
Inai 1936
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Demospongiae
- Protomonaxonida
- Heliospongiidae
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Coelocladia spinosa
Girty 1908
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unclassified
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Bryozoa indet.
Ehrenberg 1831
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Brachiopoda indet.
Cuvier 1805
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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
(Leske 1778)
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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Miller 1821
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Algae
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Algae indet.
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| encrusting algae | ||||||||||
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Chlorophyceae
- Dasycladales
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Dasycladales indet.
Kützing 1860
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Geography
| Country: | Spain | State/province: | Asturias | County: | Demues |
| Coordinates: | 43.3° North, 5.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 5.2° South, 11.2° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Pennsylvanian |
| Stage: | Kasimovian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 5 |
| Key time interval: | Kasimovian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 307 - 303.7 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Demues | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 'lower 30m of the Demues Fm.
Fusulinids date the formation as early to middle Kasimovian. Fossil flora gives the age as late Kasimovian. Foraminifers are latest Moscovian age... middle of the formation is Kasimovian. ' | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | calcareous marl |
| Secondary lithology: | "shale" |
| Lithology description: 'primarily marls and shales, with some intercalated decimeter-thick limestone beds.' | |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UCM |
| Collection method comments: 'Specimens are deposited in the Department of Paleontology, Faculty of Geology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM).' | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 39857 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | J. Sessa |
| Modifier: | J. Sessa | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-06-09 18:21:18 | Last modified: | 2004-06-09 21:21:18 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-06-09 18:21:18 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 10759. | D. C. Garcia-Bellido and J. K. Rigby. 2004. Devonian and Carboniferous sponges from Spain. Journal of Paleontology 78(3):431-455 [A. Miller/J. Sessa/W. Kiessling] |