Buçaco, Serra de Bussaco: Kralodvorian, Portugal

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Pleurotomaria bussacensis n. sp. Sharpe 1853
Sharpe 1853
recombined as Ptychonema bussacensis
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
? Orthis mundae n. sp. Sharpe 1853
Sharpe 1853
recombined as Hedstroemina mundae
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Orthidiellidae
Orthis exornata n. sp. Sharpe 1853
Sharpe 1853
recombined as Portranella exornata
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plectorthidae
Orthis bussacensis n. sp. Sharpe 1853
Sharpe 1853
recombined as Apollonorthis bussacensis
Stenolaemata - Phylloporinidae
Chasmatopora hypnoides (Sharpe 1853)
Jiménez-Sánchez 2009
recombined as Moorephylloporina hypnoides
Malacostraca - Archaeostraca - Ceratiocarididae
? Dithyrocaris longicauda n. sp. Sharpe 1853
Sharpe 1853
recombined as Ceratiocaris longicauda
Trilobita - Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Phacops dujardini Rouault 1847
Sharpe 1853
recombined as Crozonaspis dujardini
see common names

Geography
Country:Portugal
Coordinates: 40.4° North, 8.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:75.0° South, 56.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:middle Late Ordovician 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
Key time interval:Kralodvorian
Age range of interval:449.50000 - 445.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Venda Nova Formation:Porto de Santa Anna Member:Leira Ma
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:volcaniclastic,ooidal lithified ironstone
Lithology description: Basal oolitic ironstone with volcaniclastics
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils,some macrofossils,species names
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Full List:
Dithyrocaris ? longicauda, n. s.
Orthis exornata, n. s.
Orthis Bussacensis, n.s.
Orthis Mundae, n. s.
Orthis testudinaria Dalm.
Orthis Bertboiai, Rouault
Orthis parva, Pafllkr.
Porambonites Ribeiro, n.s.
Porambonites lima, n. s.
Leptaena Beirensis, n. s.
Leptaena ignava, n. s.
Leptaena deltoidea, Conrad
Pleurotomaria Bussacenais, n.s.
Favosites fibrosa, Goldf.
Synocladia Lusitanica, n.s.
Synocladia hypnoides, n. s.
Disteichia reticulata, n. s.
Retepora, 1 or. 2 species.
Metadata
Database number:166718
Authorizer:P. Wagner, B. Kröger Enterer:P. Wagner, B. Kröger
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-02-23 20:32:30 Last modified:2020-05-25 16:00:39
Access level:the public Released:2015-02-23 20:32:30
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6396. E. Villas. 1995. Caradoc through early Ashgill brachiopods from the Central-Iberian Zone (central Spain). Géobios 28(1):49-84 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

18349 L.F. Hintze. 1951. Lower Ordovician detailed stratigraphic sections for western Utah. Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey Bulletin 39:99 p. [A. Miller/A. Miller]
56588 A. Jiménez-Sánchez. 2009. The upper Katian (Ordovician) bryozoans from the Eastern Iberian Chains (NE Spain). Bulletin of Geosciences 84(4):687-738 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/P. Wagner]
72504 S. Pereira, M. Pires, and C. M. Silva and C. A. 2014. Trilobites da Formação Ribeira da Laje do Berouniano de Mação (Ordovícico Superior, Portugal). Geonovas 28:55-63 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
15484 D. Sharpe. 1853. Descriptions of the new species of Zoophyta and Mollusca (appendix B to Ribeiro, Carlos, Carboniferous and Silurian formation of the neighborhood of Bussaco in Portugal). Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 9(1):143-158 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]