scholarly journals TABULATE CORALS AND STRATIGRAPHY OF LOWER DEVONIAN AND MISSISSIPPIAN ROCKS NEAR BARCELONA (CATALONIAN COASTAL RANGES, NORTHEAST SPAIN)

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Yves Plusquellec ◽  
Esperanza Fernández-Martínez, ◽  
Javier Sanz-López ◽  
Francisco Soto ◽  
Josep Magrans ◽  
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2012 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrej Ernst ◽  
Andreas May

A bryozoan fauna containing 11 species is described from the Lower Devonian (middle Lochkovian) of Arroyo del Agua, Sierra de Guadarrama, Guadalajara, Spain. One genus containing one species is new: rhabdomesine cryptostomeFehlerpora insolitan. gen. n. sp. Six additional new species are described: three cystoporates:Cystiramus gracilisn. sp.,Fistuliramus guadarramaensisn. sp., andFistuliphragma tenuisn. sp.; and three trepostomes:Eridotrypella hispanican. sp.,Boardmanella dubian. sp., andLeptotrypella inesaen. sp. Four further trepostome species were identified:Leioclema incompositumDuncan, 1939,Minussina spinosoformisAstrova, 1964b,Leptotrypella verisimilisAstrova, 1970, andLeptotrypella vulgataAstrova, 1964b. The association is distributed over three different sedimentary environments. The high-energy one representing accumulation of debris from bryozoan-coral-pelmatozoan thickets contains eight species dominated by erect branched forms (six species). Tabulate corals are present, especially branches which most likely belong toSubcladopora?abnormis(Mironova, 1974). The environment with moderate to low wave influence contains only two bryozoan species, one erect branched and one encrusting. The third setting represents bryozoan thickets in situ situated in deeper water, the most tranquil environment characterized by four bryozoan species, dominated by three erect forms. Fenestrate bryozoans are absent from the two higher energy environments, whereas the bryozoan thickets in deeper water contain rare unidentified fragments of fenestrates. The bryozoan fauna shows distinct relations to the Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) of Ukraine, one species is known from the Middle Devonian of U.S.A.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
David Clark ◽  
Drew Derenthal ◽  
Bart Kowallis ◽  
Scott Ritter

In central Utah, the major pre-Mississippian unconformity is fairly well understood at most of the localities where it is recognized. However, the unconformity is more enigmatic in Rock Canyon of the central Wasatch Range. At this locality, dolomitization of most pre-Mississippian rocks obscures stratigraphic identification of Devonian and older units. The absence of any identifiable angular relationship further complicates resolution. Because of this, both identification of the stratigraphic level of the unconformity and, consequently, its magnitude remain controversial. Large-size dolomite samples taken in Rock Canyon at closely spaced intervals for the 3.6-m directly below definite Upper Devonian rocks yield microfossils, including conodonts, in the uppermost 1.6-m of that interval that indicate no unconformity exists between the Cambrian Maxfield Limestone and the Upper Devonian-Lower Mississippian Fitchville Dolomite at the horizon previously identified as unconformable. Rather, an unknown thickness of dolomitized Upper Devonian Pinyon Peak Formation and probable older rock (possibly Bluebell Dolomite and Victoria Formation) occurs between the top of definite Maxfield and base of the Fitchville. The identification of the unconformity horizon remains unknown. Our preliminary work outlines a promising procedure for future understanding of the magnitude and stratigraphic level of the unconformity.


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