Peña del Tormo (F4) (Ordovician of Spain)

Also known as Locality 1. 1 km west of the village of Fombuena. F4 locality (Peña del Tormo section) of Villas (1985)

Where: Zaragoza, Spain (41.1° N, 1.2° W: paleocoordinates 72.6° S, 84.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Huerva Member (Fombuena Formation), Berounian (457.9 - 449.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, argillaceous sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: Repository: Museo de Ciencias Naturales de la Universidad de Zaragoza (MPZ), Spain

Primary reference: S. R. Cole, W. I. Ausich, J. Colmenar and S. Zamora. 2017. Filling the Gondwanan gap: paleobiogeographic implications of new crinoids from the Castillejo and Fombuena formations (Middle and Upper Ordovician, Iberian Chains, Spain). Journal of Paleontology 91(4):715-734 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 186255: authorized by Val Syverson, entered by Val Syverson on 18.06.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Diplobathrida - Anthracocrinidae
Dalicrinus hammanni Cole et al. 2017 Sea lily
Goyacrinus gutierrezi Cole et al. 2017 Sea lily
Fombuenacrinus nodulus Cole et al. 2017 Sea lily
 Diplobathrida - Rhodocrinitidae
Ambonacrinus decorus Cole et al. 2017 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Patelliocrinidae
Eopatelliocrinus hispaniensis Cole et al. 2017 Sea lily
 Dendrocrinida - Thenarocrinidae
Picassocrinus villasi Cole et al. 2017 Sea lily
 Maennilicrinida - Maennilicrinidae
Heviacrinus melendezi Gil Cid et al. 1996 Sea lily