Where: Aragon, Spain (41.1° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 50.7° S, 38.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: d4a Member (Mariposas Formation), Early/Lower Emsian (409.1 - 402.5 Ma)
• submember d4a-beta. Latest Siegenian and earliest Emsian. dehiscens zone.
•JA: originally entered as Pragian to Emsian, but the dehiscens zone is entirely early Emsian
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale and carbonate
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: P. Carls. 1988. The Devonian of Celtiberia (Spain) and Devonian paleogeography of SW Europe. In N. J. McMillan, A. F. Embry, D. J. Glass (eds.), Devonian of the World, Volume I 421-466 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 40403: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 23.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Conodonta | |
Polygnathus dehiscens conodont | |
Icriodus sp. Branson and Mehl 1938 conodont | |
Bivalvia | |
Actinopteria sp. Hall 1884 oyster | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Uncinulus sp. Bayle 1878 | |
Arduspirifer arduennensis Schnur 1853 | |
Rhipidomellidae indet. Schuchert 1913 | |
Schizophoria sp. King 1850 | |
Meganteris sp. Suess 1855 | |
Strophomenata | |
Rhenostrophia sp. Boucot 1960 | |
Leptostrophia sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Leptaenopyxis sp. HavlĂcek 1963 | |
Eodevonaria sp. Twenhofel 1914 | |
"Hemichonetes belairensis" = Chlupacina
"Hemichonetes belairensis" = Chlupacina | |
"Plicostropheodonta sp." = Dictyostrophia (Plicostropheodonta)
"Plicostropheodonta sp." = Dictyostrophia (Plicostropheodonta) | |
Iridistrophia sp. Havlicek 1965 | |
Tentaculitida indet. Ljaschenko 1955 | |
Trilobita | |
Otarion (Otarion) convexum trilobite | |
"Cornuproetus (Cornuproetus) chouberti" = Paralepidoproetus chouberti
"Cornuproetus (Cornuproetus) chouberti" = Paralepidoproetus chouberti Alberti 1964 trilobite | |
Homalonotinae indet. trilobite | |
Greenops (? Neometacanthus) aff. aequituberculatus, Metacanthina asnoensis, Treveropyge prorotundifrons, ? Treveropyge actifrons, Kayserops obsoletus
Metacanthina asnoensis trilobite
Treveropyge prorotundifrons trilobite
? Treveropyge actifrons trilobite
Kayserops obsoletus trilobite | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Anthozoa | |
Rugosa indet. horn coral | |
Pleurodictyum problematicum tabulate coral | |
Favositidae indet. Dana 1846 tabulate coral |