Collection from the Portilla LS, Member C2, Veneros, Spain (Devonian to of Spain)

Where: Spain (42.8° N, 5.3° E: paleocoordinates 34.9° S, 30.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: C2 Member (Portilla Formation), Late/Upper Givetian to Late/Upper Givetian (388.1 - 382.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; dolomitic, argillaceous, cherty/siliceous wackestone

• "biostromal"

Primary reference: T. J. A. Reijers. 1972. Facies and diagenesis of the Devonian Portilla Limestone Formation between the River Esla and the embalse de la Luna, Cantabrian Mountains, Spain. Leidse Geologische Mededelingen 47(2):163-249 [A. Miller/J. Sessa/J. Sessa]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27713: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 23.12.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Fossil occurences are given on strat column diagrams and within the text.
unclassified
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Anthozoa
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Spinatrypa sp. Stainbrook 1951
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Emanuella sp. Grabau 1923
 Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Reticulariidae
Warrenella sp.
reported as 'Minatothyris'
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Phacops (Phacops) sp. Emmrich 1839 trilobite
 Phacopida - Acastidae