Cacemia beds, Navalpino: Oretanian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Cardiolariidae
Cardiolaria beirensis (Sharpe 1853)
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Praenuculidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Cuidad Real
Coordinates: 39.0° North, 5.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:82.9° South, 29.9° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Ordovician Epoch: Middle Ordovician
10 m.y. bin: Ordovician 2-3
*Period:Middle Ordovician *Epoch:Late/Upper Llanvirn
*Local age/stage:Oretanian
Key time interval: Oretanian
Age range of interval: 468 - 459.7 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Navatrasierra Shale Member:Upper
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal,red or brown lithified "shale"
Lithology description: Reddish shale with coquinas
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils,some macrofossils,species names
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Bivalve taxonomy
Metadata
Also known as:Upper Half, Cacemia beds, Navatrasierra Shale Fm., Navalpino, Cuidad Real, Spain
Database number:20918
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:P. Novack-Gottshall
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-06-12 10:48:29 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2002-06-12 10:48:29
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
6367. C. Babin and J. C. Gutiérrez-Marco. 1991. Middle Ordovician bivalves from Spain and their phyletic and palaeogeographic significance. Palaeontology 34:109-147 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]