Equinodermos del Paleozoico Inferior (Cámbrico y Ordovícico) del Macizo Hespéricoejemplos de conservación excepcional

  1. D. Gil Cid 1
  2. M. Mora 1
  3. R. Lara 1
  4. F. Arroyo 1
  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR 02p0gd045

Revue:
Geotemas (Madrid)

ISSN: 1576-5172

Année de publication: 2004

Titre de la publication: VII Congreso Geológico de España

Número: 7

Pages: 233-236

Type: Article

D'autres publications dans: Geotemas (Madrid)

Résumé

In the Lower Paleozoic (Cambrian-Middle Ordovician) sediments of the Macizo Hespérico numerous echinoderm fossils have been found (eocrinoids, homalozoans, diploporids, rombipherans, crinoids, and asteroids) in some exceptional conditions of conservation. This is due to the mineralized skeleton that these organisms present and the existence of some post-mortem processes that allowed this type of conservation.