Where: Spain (43.5° N, 5.1° W: paleocoordinates 60.1° S, 99.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Protopeltura praecursor trilobite zone, La Matosa Member (Barrios Formation), Furongian (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• According to Albani et al. (2006), the El Fabar microflora might correspond to the lower part of Microflora RA5 from eastern Newfoundland (Parsons & Anderson 2000), which can be correlated with the upper part of Microflora A4 of Martin in Martin & Dean (1988) from the same area. The latter is placed in the

•Protopeltura praecursor trilobite biozone recognized in Avalonian Canada, Britain and Scandinavia, that has been considered either of late Jiangshanian age by Westrop et al. (2011) or as of earliest Cambrian Stage 10 age by

•Rushton et al.

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; gray shale

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: trace

Primary reference: G. F. Aceñolaza, R. Albani, E. Bernárdez, D. G. García-Bellido, J. C. Gutiérrez-Marco, I. Rábano, and A. A. 2014. First Furongian (late Cambrian) trilobites from the Cantabrian Zone (north-western Spain). Bulletin of Geosciences 89(2):239-244 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156227: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 13.05.2014

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