Serra de Buçaco (Ordovician of Portugal)

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

• Bivalve taxonomy and biostratigraphy
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
 Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
Ctenodonta sp. Salter 1852 clam