Los Villares Formation Arroyo de Pedroche sections 1&2 (Cambrian of Spain)

Where: Spain (38.0° N, 4.8° W: paleocoordinates 59.5° S, 109.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Badulesia other zone, Lower Member (Los Villares Formation), Middle Cambrian (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)

• Leonian to lower Caeseraugustinian (Badulesia zone)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified sandstone and lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: E. Liñán, M. E. Dies, J. A. Gamez Vintaned, R. Gozalo, E. Mayoral and F. Muñiz. 2005. Lower Ovetian (Lower Cambrian) trilobites and biostratigraphy of the Pedroche Formation (Sierra de Córdoba, southern Spain). Géobios 38:365-381 [S. Peters/S. Peters/O. Alfaro]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55265: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Shanan Peters on 04.10.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• This collection represents a summary of the trilobites found in the lower part of the Formation in the study region
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Condylopygidae
Condylopyge cf. rex Barrande 1846
 Agnostida - Peronopsidae
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Dolichometopidae
Dolichometopus sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Ellipsocephalidae
 Redlichiida - Agraulidae
Skreiaspis sp. Ruzicka 1946 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Paradoxididae
"Eccaparadoxides sdzuyi" = Paradoxides (Eccaparadoxides) trilobite
Eccaparadoxides cf. pusillus Barrande 1846 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Solenopleuridae
Jincella sp. Snajdr 1957 trilobite
Parasolenopleura aculeata Angelin 1951 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Conocoryphidae
Bailiella sp. Matthew 1885 trilobite