Bruguers-Gavà (Devonian of Spain)

Where: Barcelona, Spain (41.3° N, 2.0° E: paleocoordinates 57.8° S, 46.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: A Member (Olorda Formation), Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• lower part of the Olorda Fm., Lochkovian

Environment/lithology: offshore; nodular, black shale and siltstone

• Concerning the lithology and faunal content, the shales with eurypterids from the Bruguers-Gavà area may be ranged withinthe Benthic Assemblages 4 to 5 in the classification of Boucot (1975). The lithology and fossil content points to offshore marine conditions of a probably open shelf area
• black and pink shales with nodules of iron oxides, cherts, layers of siltstones or fine grained

•sandstones.

Size class: macrofossils

• dacryoconarid tentaculites, brachiopods, trilobites, hyolithids, bryozoans, bivalves, solitary rugose corals,

•cephalopods, gastropods, phyllocarids and eurypterids. Monograptus hercynicus

Primary reference: I. Chlupac, E. Ferrer, J. Magrans, R. Mane, and J. Sanz. 1997. Early Devonian eurypterids with Bohemian affinities from Catalonia (NE Spain). Batalleria (Barcelona) 7:9-21 [R. Plotnick/R. Plotnick]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 231817: authorized by Roy Plotnick, entered by Roy Plotnick on 14.09.2023

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Taxonomic list

Euchelicerata
 Eurypterida - Pterygotidae
Pterygotus cf. barrandei Semper 1898 eurypterid
Acutiramus sp. eurypterid
Acutiramus perneri Chlupac 1994 eurypterid