Lower Mbr, Armorican Quartzite Fm., Celtiberia, Zaragoza, Spain (Ordovician of Spain)

Where: Zaragoza, Spain (41.0° N, 1.0° W: paleocoordinates 67.6° S, 97.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Armorican Quartzite Formation), Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: foreshore; lithified, silty sandstone

• Massive, cross-bedded, white orthoquartzites with minor intercalations of siltstones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Wolf. 1980. The lower and upper boundary of the Ordovician System of some selected regions (Celtiberia, eastern Sierra Morena) in Spain; Part I, The Lower Ordovician sequence of Celtiberia. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 160(1):118-137 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21079: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 17.06.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Primarily inarticulate brachiopod biostratigraphy
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Lingulata
 Lingulida -
? Tomasina sp.
? Tomasina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Lingulella sp., Ectenoglossa sp.
Lingulella sp. Salter 1866
Ectenoglossa sp. Sinclair 1945