Emma Quarry Amphibian Bed: Stephanian C, Spain
collected 1994

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Elonichthyiformes - Elonichthyidae
Elonichthys sp. Giebel 1848
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Iberospondylus schultzei n. gen., n. sp. Laurin and Soler-Gijón 2001
Laurin and Soler-Gijón 2001
PU-ANF 14 (Holotype: complete skull, 14cm long), PU-ANF15 (partial skull), and PU-ANF 2 (partial skull)
Amphibia
Puertollanopus omicrodactylus n. gen., n. sp. Soler-Gijón and Moratalla 2001
Aeduelliformes - Aeduellidae
Bourbonnella sp. Heyler 1967
Paramblypteriformes
Paramblypterus sp. Blot 1966
unclassified
Undichna brittanica Higgs 1988
Undichna unisulca de Gibert et al. 1999
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Castilla-La Manacha
Coordinates: 38.7° North, 4.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:6.4° South, 11.0° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Carboniferous Epoch: Pennsylvanian
Stage: Gzhelian 10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 5
Key time interval: Stephanian C
Age range of interval: 300.9 - 300.3 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: single bedding plane
Amphibian bed above coal seam III
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: siltstone
Lithology description: "siltstone"
Environment:estuary/bay
Geology comments: "intertidal"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection dates:1994
Metadata
Also known as:Puertollano
Database number:75090
Authorizer:J. Alroy, E. Dunne, R. Butler Enterer:J. Alroy, E. Dunne, S. Fasey
Modifier:S. Fasey Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-09-21 15:07:02 Last modified:2023-06-28 11:05:22
Access level:the public Released:2007-09-21 15:07:02
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

25351.5% 53820R. Soler-Gijón and J. J. Moratalla. 2001. Fish and tetrapod trace fossils from the Upper Carboniferous of Puertollano, Spain. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 171(1-2):1-28 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/S. Fasey]

Secondary references:

59743 M. Laurin and R. Soler-Gijón. 2001. The oldest stegocephalian from the Iberian Peninsula: evidence that temnospondyls were euryhaline. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series III - Sciences de la Vie 324:495-501 [R. Butler/E. Dunne/E. Dunne]