ammonites
La Cueta LC-1a, Castilla (Devonian of Spain)

Where: Castilla-León, Spain (43.0° N, 6.2° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° S, 22.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Portilla Formation, Givetian (388.1 - 383.7 Ma)

• thickness 3 m

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; framestone

• grey and nodular limestone, with a biohermal aspect, with a packstone-grainstone matrix

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: I. Méndez-Bedia, F. Soto, and E. Fernández-Martínez. 1994. Devonian reef types in the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain) and their faunal composition. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 172(2):161-183 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80481: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Falko Reichel on 21.04.2008