Where: Zaragoza, Spain (41.0° N, 1.0° W: paleocoordinates 67.6° S, 97.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Upper horizon Member (Santed Formation), Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)
• Not sure whether "Upper horizon" refers to formal member or informal section name
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, green, sandy, conglomeratic siltstone and lithified mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: R. Wolf. 1980. The lower and upper boundary of the Ordovician System of some selected regions (Celtiberia, eastern Sierra Morena) in Spain; Part I, The Lower Ordovician sequence of Celtiberia. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 160(1):118-137 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 21075: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 17.06.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Lingulata | |
Tomasina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Craniata | |
Dinobolus sp. Hall 1871 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Paurorthina sp. Rubel 1961 | |
Trilobita | |
Prionocheilus sp. Rouault 1847 trilobite | |
Parapilekia sp. Kobayashi 1934 trilobite | |
Asaphellina sp. Chalmas and Bergeron 1989 trilobite | |
Apatokephalus sp. Brögger 1896 trilobite | |
Micrhystridium sp. Deflandre 1937 acritarchs
Eupoikilofusa sp. Cramer 1970 acritarchs
Acanthodiacrodium sp. Timofeev 1958 acritarchs | |
Dinophyceae | |
Cymatiogalea sp. Deunff 1961 |