CAC3. Bucaco Syncline: Dobrotivian, Portugal

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Crozonaspis struvei Henry 1968
1 specimen
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Neseuretus (Neseuretus) tristani (Brongniart in Desmarest 1817)
1 specimen
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Ectillaenus sp. Salter 1867
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Sluha beirensis
1 specimen
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Heterorthidae
Heterorthina kerfornei Melou 1975
2 specimens
Lingulata - Lingulida - Pseudolingulidae
? Pseudolingula sp. Mickwitz 1909
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Portugal
Coordinates: 40.0° North, 8.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:74.1° South, 71.9° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Ordovician
10 m.y. bin: Ordovician 3-4
Key time interval: Dobrotivian Graptolite zone:  Glyptograptus teretiusculus
Age range of interval: 459.7 - 458.5 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Fonte da Horta
Regional section:Bucaco Regional bed:56 m
Regional order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified mudstone
Secondary lithology: lithified sandstone
Lithology description: Mudstones with occasional interbedded sandstone
Environment:offshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils,some macrofossils,species names
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:193326
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Research group:marine invertebrate
Subset of collection #:20932
Created:2018-05-11 22:44:34 Last modified:2018-05-11 22:44:34
Access level:the public Released:2018-05-11 22:44:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6372. T. P. Young. 1985. The stratigraphy of the Upper Ordovician of central Portugal. University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]