Also known as Llandeilan? Fm., Serra de Bussaco, Portugal
Where: Portugal (40.0° N, 8.0° W: paleocoordinates 74.1° S, 71.9° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Fonte da Horta Formation, Dobrotivian (459.0 - 457.9 Ma)
• Formation was not formally named as of reference publication; name probably a descriptor. PJW: Llandeilan aged rock here is Fonte da Horta formation.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: C. Babin. 1966. Mollusques bivalves et céphalopodes du Paléozoïque Armoricain. Étudé systématique. Essai sur la phylogénie des bivalves. Esquisse paléoécologique. Imprimerie Commerciale et Administrative. Brest 1-471 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 20856: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 11.06.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam | |
Ctenodonta sp. Salter 1852 clam |