Serra do Marao (Ordovician of Portugal)

Also known as Neseuretus tristani zone, Llandeilan Fm., Serra do Marao, Marao, Portugal

Where: Marao, Portugal (41.0° N, 8.0° W: paleocoordinates 73.1° S, 71.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Neseuretus tristani trilobite zone, Moncorvo Formation, Dobrotivian (460.9 - 457.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

• Shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. Teixeira. 1974. Aspectos da geologia e da paleontologia da Serra do MarĂ£o. Boletim da Sociedade Geologico de Portugal 19:1-8 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21011: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 14.06.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Asaphus sp. Brongniart 1822 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Neseuretus tristani Brongniart in Desmarest 1817 trilobite