Emma Quarry Amphibian Bed (Carboniferous of Spain)

Also known as Puertollano

Where: Castilla-La Manacha, Spain (38.7° N, 4.1° W: paleocoordinates 8.7° S, 9.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Stephanian C (301.0 - 300.4 Ma)

• single bedding plane

•Amphibian bed above coal seam III

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; siltstone

• "intertidal"
• "siltstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, trace

Collected in 1994

Primary reference: R. 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75090: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.2007, edited by Emma Dunne and Sophie Fasey

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Undichna
  -
Undichna unisulca de Gibert et al. 1999
Undichna brittanica Higgs 1988
Amphibia
 Microsauria -
Puertollanopus omicrodactylus n. gen. n. sp. Soler-Gijón and Moratalla 2001 tetrapod
 Temnospondyli -
Iberospondylus schultzei n. gen. n. sp.
Iberospondylus schultzei n. gen. n. sp. Laurin and Soler-Gijón 2001 tetrapod
PU-ANF 14 (Holotype: complete skull, 14cm long), PU-ANF15 (partial skull), and PU-ANF 2 (partial skull)
Osteichthyes
 Paramblypteriformes -
 Aeduelliformes - Aeduellidae
Bourbonnella sp. Heyler 1967
 Elonichthyiformes - Elonichthyidae
Elonichthys sp. Giebel 1848 ray-finned fish