Nuevo yacimiento de trilobites en la Formación Agüeira (Ordovícico Superior) del sinclinorio de Vega de Espinareda (Zona Asturoccidental-leonesa, NO de España): su interés estratigráfico
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Se presenta una nueva localidad paleontológica del Ordovícico
del noroeste de España, ubicada en el flanco meridional del sinclinorio de Vega de Espinareda, al norte de Ponferrada (provincia de
León). Se trata de la octava localidad con fósiles esqueléticos encontrada en la Formación Agüeira (Ordovícico Superior) del Dominio
del Navia-Alto Sil de la Zona Asturoccidental-leonesa, y la primera
ubicada en la mitad inferior de la formación. El nuevo yacimiento
se sitúa muy próximo a su sección de referencia de la garganta fluvial entre las localidades de Congosto y Santa Marina del Sil, donde
estos niveles eran interpretados como facies distales de un abanico
submarino, en una sedimentación predominantemente turbidítica.
Pero los trilobites, moluscos y braquiópodos encontrados, que por
su escasa a nula desarticulación no parecen transportados, revelan una asociación propia de ambientes de plataforma mucho más
someros, con fondos oxigenados como revela la alta concentración
de galerías horizontales. La presencia de los trilobites Colpocoryphe
grandis (Šnajdr) y Dalmanitina n. sp. (D. rabanoae Pereira, n. n.) indica una edad Berouniense temprano (= Sandbiense temprano), lo
que abre la posibilidad de que el límite Ordovícico Medio/Superior
se sitúe en los 400-450 m basales de la Fm. Agüeira en el sector
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A new paleontological locality in the Ordovician of northwestern Spain is presented, situated north of Ponferrada (León province), on the southern flank of the Vega de Espinareda synclinorium. This is the eighth locality with skeletal fossils found in the Agüeira Formation (Upper Ordovician) of the Navia-Alto Sil Domain of the West Asturian-Leonese Zone, and the first recorded in the lower half of the Formation. The new locality is very close to its reference section in the fluvial gorge between the towns of Congosto and Santa Marina del Sil, where these lower beds were interpreted as distal facies of a submarine turbiditic fan, adjacent to the basinal plain. However, the trilobites, brachiopods and mollusks here studied, which do not seem to have been transported due to their little to no disarticulation, reveal an assemblage typical of much shallower shelf environments, with oxigenated seafloor as demonstrated by the abundance of horizontal burrows. The record of the trilobites Colpocoryphe grandis (Šnajdr) and Dalmanitina n. sp. (D. rabanoae Pereira, n. n.) indicates an early Berounian (=early Sandbian) age, which opens the possibility that the Middle/Upper Ordovician boundary could be placed in the studied area within the lower 400-500 m of the Agüeira Formation
A new paleontological locality in the Ordovician of northwestern Spain is presented, situated north of Ponferrada (León province), on the southern flank of the Vega de Espinareda synclinorium. This is the eighth locality with skeletal fossils found in the Agüeira Formation (Upper Ordovician) of the Navia-Alto Sil Domain of the West Asturian-Leonese Zone, and the first recorded in the lower half of the Formation. The new locality is very close to its reference section in the fluvial gorge between the towns of Congosto and Santa Marina del Sil, where these lower beds were interpreted as distal facies of a submarine turbiditic fan, adjacent to the basinal plain. However, the trilobites, brachiopods and mollusks here studied, which do not seem to have been transported due to their little to no disarticulation, reveal an assemblage typical of much shallower shelf environments, with oxigenated seafloor as demonstrated by the abundance of horizontal burrows. The record of the trilobites Colpocoryphe grandis (Šnajdr) and Dalmanitina n. sp. (D. rabanoae Pereira, n. n.) indicates an early Berounian (=early Sandbian) age, which opens the possibility that the Middle/Upper Ordovician boundary could be placed in the studied area within the lower 400-500 m of the Agüeira Formation







