Viso del Marqués (Ordovician of Spain)

Where: Cuidad Real, Spain (38.5° N, 3.6° W: paleocoordinates 75.7° S, 80.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pizarras Cantera Formation, Berounian (457.9 - 449.8 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, ferruginous, ooidal, silty, conglomeratic shale and lithified ironstone

• Shale with ironstone, silty pebbles, and iron oolites

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: S. Zamora, J. J. Alvaro, and D. Vizcaîno. 2009. Pelmatozoan echinoderms from the Cambrian–Ordovician transition of the Iberian Chains (NE Spain): early diversification of anchoring strategies. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 102(1):43-55 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197248: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.10.2018

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Taxonomic list

• Articulate brachiopod taxonomy
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Trilobita
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Colpocoryphe grandis1
Colpocoryphe grandis1 Snajdr 1956 trilobite
Soluta
 Dendrocystitida - Dendrocystitidae
Dendrocystites barrandei4
 Rhombifera - Cheirocrinidae
Homocystites geyeri3
 Rhombifera - Macrocystellidae
Macrocystella pauli n. sp.3
Macrocystella pauli n. sp.3 Gil Cid et al. 1996
Crinoidea
 Diplobathrida - Rhodocrinitidae
Ortsaecrinus cocae n. gen. n. sp.1
Ortsaecrinus cocae n. gen. n. sp.1 Gil Cid et al. 1999 Sea lily
Stylophora
 Cornuta - Cothurnocystidae
Bohemiaecystis jefferiesi n. sp.2
1Ausich et al. 2002; 2Gil Cid et al. 1996; 3Gil Cid et al. 1996; 4Noailles et al. 2014