Also known as Sanguineira Grp, Louredo Fm., Bucaco Syncline, Portugal
Where: Portugal (40.0° N, 8.0° W: paleocoordinates 74.7° S, 66.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Louredo Formation (Sanguineira Group), Berounian to Berounian (457.9 - 449.5 Ma)
• Collected indiscriminately from all three members. PJW: I cannot find anything about these members (Vale, Saido, Zuvinhal and Galhano)!
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified mudstone and lithified, bioturbated sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: W. I. Mitchell. 1974. An outline of the stratigraphy and palaeontology of the Ordovician rocks of Central Portugal. Geological Magazine 111(5):385-396 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 20954: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 13.06.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Protozoa | |
Bivalvia | |
"Praeleda sp." = Deceptrix
"Praeleda sp." = Deceptrix Fuchs 1919 clam | |
Concavodonta sp. Babin 1972 clam | |
Myoplusia sp. Neumayr 1884 clam | |
"? Leda sp." = Nuculana
"? Leda sp." = Nuculana Link 1807 pointed nut clam | |
Strophomenata | |
"Blyskavomena sp." = Dactylogonia
"Blyskavomena sp." = Dactylogonia Ulrich and Cooper 1942 | |
Hedstroemina sp. Bancroft 1929 | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Rostricellula sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1942 | |
Svobodaina sp. Havlicek 1951 | |
Howellites sp. Bancroft 1945
Onniella sp. Bancroft 1928 | |
Horderleyella sp. Bancroft 1928 | |
Craniata | |
Petrocrania sp. Raymond 1910 | |
Trilobita | |
Onnia cf. seunesi trilobite
Deanaspis sp. Hughes et al. 1975 trilobite | |
Plaesiacomia sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite | |
Dalmanitina sp. Reed 1905 trilobite | |
Chitinozoa | |
Conochitina sp. Eisenack 1931 |