Upper horizon, Santed Fm., Celtiberia, Zaragoza, Spain (Ordovician of Spain)

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

• Alternating green to brown silstones and mudstones intercalated with thin-bedded sandstone and rare conglomeritic lenses

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
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Lingulata
 Lingulida -
Tomasina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Obolus sp. Eichwald 1829
Elliptoglossa sp. Cooper 1956
Craniata
 Trimerellida - Trimerellidae
Dinobolus sp. Hall 1871
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Paurorthidae
Paurorthina sp. Rubel 1961
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Prionocheilus sp. Rouault 1847 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Parapilekia sp. Kobayashi 1934 trilobite
 Asaphida - Taihungshaniidae
Asaphellina sp. Chalmas and Bergeron 1989 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Apatokephalus sp. Brögger 1896 trilobite
 Life -
Micrhystridium sp. Deflandre 1937 acritarchs
Eupoikilofusa sp. Cramer 1970 acritarchs
Acanthodiacrodium sp. Timofeev 1958 acritarchs
Dinophyceae
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Cymatiogalea sp. Deunff 1961