Schistes Botella Fm., East Sierra Morena, Jaen, Spain (Ordovician of Spain)

Where: East Sierra Morena, Spain (38.0° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 75.5° S, 84.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Schistes Botella Formation, Dobrotivian (459.0 - 457.9 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, concretionary, pyritic, shelly/skeletal, silty shale

• Silty shale with pyrite nodules and fossiliferous shell beds

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. C. Capera, R. Courtessole, and J. Pillet. 1975. Biostratigraphie de l'Ordovicien inferieur de la Montagne Noire (France meridionale) tremadocien inferieur. Bulletin de la Societe d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 111(3-4):337-378 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 20834: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 10.06.2002, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Placoparia sp.
Placoparia sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Crozonaspis sp.
Crozonaspis sp. Henry 1968 trilobite
 Phacopida - Acastidae
? Kloucekia sp.
? Kloucekia sp. Delo 1935 trilobite
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Colpocoryphe sp., Eohomalonotus sp., Iberocoryphe sp., Kerfornella sp.
Colpocoryphe sp. Novak and Perner 1918 trilobite
Eohomalonotus sp. Reed 1918 trilobite
Iberocoryphe sp. Hammann 1977 trilobite
Kerfornella sp. Henry 1976 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Neseuretus sp.
Neseuretus sp. Hicks 1873 trilobite
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
? Orthoceras sp.
? Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida -
Bellerophontoidea indet.
Bellerophontoidea indet. M'Coy 1851 snail
Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Redonia sp.
Redonia sp. Rouault 1851 clam
 Actinodontida - Cycloconchidae
Actinodonta sp.
Actinodonta sp. Philipps 1848 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella sp.
Dalmanella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena sp.
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Viruella sp.
Viruella sp. Roomusoks 1959
 Strophomenida - Aegiromenidae
? Aegiromena sp.
? Aegiromena sp. Havlícek 1961
 Sphaeronitida - Aristocystitidae
Calix sp.
Calix sp. Rouault 1878