Geras de Gordon, Santa Lucia Fm (Devonian of Spain)

Where: Spain (42.9° N, 5.8° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° S, 31.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Santa Lucia Formation, Late/Upper Emsian (402.5 - 391.9 Ma)

• Latest Emsian

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

• The bed rich in udoteaceans is intercalated in strata of stromatoporid/cnidarian facies

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: charcoalification

Primary reference: R. Herrmann and B. Hubmann. 1994. Devonian udoteacean green algae from the Cantabrian Mountains (Santa Lucia Formation), NW Spain. Revista espanola de paleontologia 9(2):195-202 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144738: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 16.05.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Pseudopalaeoporella
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Pseudopalaeoporella lummatonensis
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Codiaceae
Litanaia graecensis