Arauz Formation, Requejada Member, Palencia, N Spain (Devonian of Spain)

Where: Palencia, Spain (43.0° N, 0.9° W: paleocoordinates 44.6° S, 38.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Requejada Member (Arauz Formation), Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• Zlichovian to Dalejan

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone and marl

• [a ca. 15m thick sequence of limestones and nodular marls with goniatites]

Primary reference: H. Jahnke, A. Henn, H. Mader and J. Schweineberg. 1983. Silur und Devon im Arauz-Gebiet (Prov. Palencia, N-Spanien). Newsletters on Stratigraphy 13(1):40-66 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 40349: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 22.06.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Anthozoa
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
 Stauriida - Combophyllidae
Combophyllum sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 horn coral
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Odontochile sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Phacopida - Acastidae
Metacanthina sp. Pillet 1954 trilobite
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Leonaspis sp. Richter and Richter 1917 trilobite
 Proetida - Otarionidae
Otarion (Maurotarion) sp. Zenker 1833 trilobite
 Proetida - Tropidocoryphidae
Xiphogonium sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Hysterolitidae
Tentaculita
 Nowakiida - Nowakiidae
Cephalopoda
 Agoniatitida - Mimoceratidae
Gyroceratites aff. laevis Eichenberg 1931 ammonite
 Agoniatitida - Mimosphinctidae
"Anetoceras advolvens" = Erbenoceras advolvens, Mimosphinctes sp.
"Anetoceras advolvens" = Erbenoceras advolvens Erben 1960 ammonite
Mimosphinctes sp. Eichenberg 1931 ammonite
 Agoniatitida - Mimagoniatitidae
Mimagoniatites bohemicus Barrande 1865 ammonite
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida -
Ozarkodina steinhornensis Ziegler 1956 conodont
 Ozarkodinida - Polygnathidae
 Prioniodontida - Icriodontidae