Los Villares Formation Arroyo de Pedroche sections 1&2: Middle Cambrian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Dolichometopidae
Dolichometopus sp. Angelin 1854
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Solenopleuridae
Badulesia tenera
Badulesia granieri
Jincella sp. Snajdr 1957
Parasolenopleura aculeata (Angelin 1951)
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Conocoryphidae
Bailiella sp. (Matthew 1885)
Conocoryphe aff. matutina
Trilobita - Redlichiida - Ellipsocephalidae
Kymataspis bernardi
Trilobita - Redlichiida - Agraulidae
Skreiaspis sp. Ruzicka 1946
Agraulos cf. arenosus
Trilobita - Redlichiida - Paradoxididae
Eccaparadoxides sdzuyi
Eccaparadoxides cf. pusillus (Barrande 1846)
Hydrocephalus cf. donayrei
Agnostida - Peronopsidae
Peronopsella prokovskajae
Agnostida - Condylopygidae
Condylopyge cf. rex (Barrande 1846)
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain
Coordinates: 38.0° North, 4.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:59.5° South, 109.5° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Cambrian Epoch: Miaolingian
10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 3-4
Key time interval: Middle Cambrian Other zone:  Badulesia
Age range of interval: 509 - 497 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Los Villares Member:Lower
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Leonian to lower Caeseraugustinian (Badulesia zone)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Secondary lithology: lithified siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Articulated whole bodies:some
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils,some microfossils,ichnofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:This collection represents a summary of the trilobites found in the lower part of the Formation in the study region
Metadata
Database number:55265
Authorizer:S. Peters Enterer:S. Peters
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-10-04 06:36:26 Last modified:2009-06-12 20:37:56
Access level:the public Released:2005-10-04 06:36:26
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

14763. E. Liñán, M. E. Dies, J. A. Gamez Vintaned, R. Gozalo, E. Mayoral and F. Muñiz. 2005. Lower Ovetian (Lower Cambrian) trilobites and biostratigraphy of the Pedroche Formation (Sierra de Córdoba, southern Spain). Géobios 38:365-381 [S. Peters/S. Peters/O. Alfaro]