East of Peña Abismo, NNE of Santa María de Redondo (Carboniferous to of Spain)

Where: Palencia, Spain (43.0° N, 4.4° W: paleocoordinates 6.7° S, 10.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Podolskian to Podolskian (311.4 - 307.0 Ma)

• Equivalent to the basal beds of the Abismo Limestone. The Abismo Limestone belongs to the Fusulinella B2 subzone and to algal zone IVb. Straddles the upper Podolskian and lower Myachkovian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified wackestone

• Irregularly bedded mudstones, wackestones, and sometimes packstones which often have a brecciated appearance.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W.J.E. van de Graaff in 1969

• Repository: Rijksmuseum van Geologie en Mineralogie, Leiden

Primary reference: C. H. T. Wagner-Gentis. 1971. Some goniatites from Westphalian D (upper Moscovian) strata in northern Palencia, Spain. Trabajos de Geología 4:665-675 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176366: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.02.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Parashumarditidae
Aktubites trifidus Ruzhentsev 1955 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Glaphyritidae
Glaphyrites angulatus Girty 1911 ammonite