Where: Andorra (42.5° N, 1.5° E: paleocoordinates 71.1° S, 64.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)
• Late Llandoverian on the basis of graptolites. Graptolites occur in a 2 m band within a 200 m thick formation of black shales.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, black shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: P. G. Oliver. 1967. Graptolite evidence for rocks of Llandoverian (Silurian) age in south-western Andorra. Geological Magazine 104:390-392 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 191683: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.02.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Pterobranchia | |
"Monograptus cf. spiralis" = Oktavites spiralis, Monograptus cf. priodon
"Monograptus cf. spiralis" = Oktavites spiralis Geinitz 1842 graptolite | |
Retiolites ex gr. geinitzianus Barrande 1850 graptolite |