Emsian fauna from the lower Moniello Fm, Asturias, NW Spain (Devonian of Spain)

Where: Asturias, Spain (43.6° N, 2.1° E: paleocoordinates 43.6° S, 39.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: lower Member (Moniello Formation), Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; packstone

• "environment was probably a situated in a wide back reef"

Collection methods: Athryid specimens are reposited in the Departmento de Geologia (Paleontologia) Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Espana

Primary reference: F. Alvarez. 1990. Devonian Athyrid Brachiopods from the Cantabrian Zone (NW Spain). Biostratigraphie du Paleozoique 11:1-311 [A. Miller/J. Sessa/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25292: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 07.09.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Plerophyllidae
Ufimia prior horn coral
Ufimia prior cata
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Xystriphyllum sp. Hill 1939 horn coral
 Stauriida - Stauriidae
Synaptophyllum sp. Simpson 1900 horn coral
Synaptophyllum n. sp.
 Stauriida - Combophyllidae
Combophyllum sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 horn coral
Combophyllum n. sp.
 Stauriida - Metriophyllidae
 Stauriida - Mucophyllidae
Pseudamplexus sp. Weissermel 1897 horn coral
Pseudamplexus n. sp. 1
 Stauriida - Stereolasmatidae
 Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae
 Stauriida - Zaphrentidae
Heliophyllum sp. Hall 1846 horn coral
 Stauriida - Eridophyllidae
Prismatophyllum sp. Simpson 1900 horn coral
Acinophyllum sp. McLaren 1959 horn coral
Acinophyllum n. sp.
 Stauriida - Halliidae
Papiliophyllum sp. Stumm 1937 horn coral
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
Ceratophyllum sp. Gürich 1896 horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Digonophyllidae
Mesophyllum originale horn coral
Mesophyllum originale originale
Cayugaea hispanica horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae