Buçaco echinoderms, Delgado 1908 (Ordovician of Portugal)

Where: Aveiro, Portugal (40.4° N, 8.3° W: paleocoordinates 75.0° S, 57.4° E)

When: Leira Má Member (Porto de Santa Anna Formation), Katian (453.0 - 445.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, volcaniclastic, carbonaceous claystone

• decalcified yellow volcaniclastic marls

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, original calcite, replaced with silica

Collected by Delgado in 1897-1908

• Museu Geológico de Lisboa

Primary reference: A. P. M. Jacinto, J. C. Gutiérrez-Marco, and S. Zamora. 2015. Upper Ordovician echinoderms from Buçaco, Portugal. In S. Zamora, I. Rábano (eds.), Progress in Echinoderm Paleobiology, Cuadernos del Museo Geominero 19:75-78 [V. Syverson/V. Syverson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 182918: authorized by Val Syverson, entered by Val Syverson on 28.11.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
 Myelodactylida - Iocrinidae
  - Cyclocharacidae
Sphaeronitida
 Sphaeronitida -
Sphaeronitida indet. Neumayr 1889
 Rhombifera - Echinosphaeritidae
"Echinosphaerites" sp. Wahlenberg 1818
 Rhombifera - Caryocystitidae
 Rhombifera -
Blastoidea
 Coronata - Stephanocrinidae
Rhombifera
 Hemicosmitida -
"Hemicosmitida indet." = Hemicosmitoida
"Hemicosmitida indet." = Hemicosmitoida Jaekel 1918