Buçaco (Ordovician of Portugal)

Also known as Queixoperra Mbr, Cabeco do Peao Fm., Buçaco, Portugal

Where: Portugal (39.0° N, 8.0° W: paleocoordinates 75.7° S, 66.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Euconochitina tanvillensis other zone, Queixoperra Member (Cabeco do Peao Formation), Berounian (457.9 - 449.8 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mudstone

• Mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Romano. 1991. Trilobites from the Ordovician of Portugal. Palaeontology 34(2):329-355 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/D. Gendry]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 20874: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 11.06.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Primarily trilobite and articulate brachiopod taxonomy and biostrat.
unclassified
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Trilobita
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Selenopeltis sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Deanaspis sp. Hughes et al. 1975 trilobite
 Phacopida - Acastidae
? Phacopidina sp. Bancroft and Lamont 1949 trilobite
? Scotiella sp. Delo 1935 trilobite
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Dalmanitina sp. Reed 1905 trilobite
Eudolatites sp. Delo 1935 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Actinopeltis sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
Eccoptochile sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Colpocoryphe sp. Novak and Perner 1918 trilobite
Calymenella sp. Bergeron 1890 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Prionocheilus sp. Rouault 1847 trilobite
 Harpetida - Harpetidae
Eoharpes sp. Raymond 1905 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Dysplanus sp. Burmeister 1843 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Giraldiellidae
 Orthida - Saukrodictyidae
Saukrodictya sp. Wright 1964
 Orthida - Draboviidae
Drabovia sp. Havlicek 1950
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Triplesia sp. Hall 1859
 Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
"Blyskavomena sp." = Dactylogonia
"Blyskavomena sp." = Dactylogonia Ulrich and Cooper 1942
 Strophomenida - Aegiromenidae
Aegiromena sp. Havlícek 1961