Where: Guadalajara, Spain (40.4° N, 3.7° W: paleocoordinates 61.7° S, 41.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Ozarkodina eosteinhornensis conodont zone, Al-4 Member (Alcolea Formation), Pridoli (423.0 - 419.2 Ma)
• "The presence of eosteinhornensis s.l. Biozone conodonts well 400 m below the first fauna described here [i.e. fauna I] confines the pre-Devonian faunas [i.e. I-III and part of IV] to the latest Silurian."
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; sandy shale and silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: P. Carls. 1977. Spain. in A. Martisson, ed. The Silurian-Devonian boundary (IUGS, Series A, Number 5). Schweizerbarth'sche, Stuttgart. 143-158 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 13927: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 03.05.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Trilobita | |
Homalonotidae indet. Chapman 1890 trilobite | |
Strophomenata | |
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Protochonetes cf. sp.O Muir-Wood 1962 | |
Leptostrophia sp.B Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
? Delthyris sp.U Dalman 1828 | |
Nucleospira sp.R Hall 1859
Nucleospira sp.T Hall 1859 | |
"Camarotoechia nucula" = Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula
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