Research paper
New conodont data from a Devonian-Carboniferous succession in the central sector of the Betic Cordillera (SE Spain)
PILAR NAVAS-PAREJO
Estación Regional del Noroeste, Instituto de Geología, UNAM, 83000 Hermosillo, Mexico. pilarnpg@geologia.unam.mx Departamento de Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain. png@ugr.es
Corresponding author
ROSARIO RODRÍGUEZ-CAÑERO
Departamento de Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain. charorc@ugr.es
AGUSTÍN MARTÍN-ALGARRA
Departamento de Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain. agustin@ugr.es
MONTSERRAT SÁNCHEZ
Departament de Resistència de Material i Estructures a l’Enginyeria, Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyeria Industrial i Aeronàutica de Terrassa, Univeristat Politècnica de Catalunya, C/Colon 11, 08222 Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain.montserrat.sanchez@upc.edu
ABSTRACT
A new Paleozoic outcrop in the Malaguide Complex of the central sector of the Betic Cordillera has provided the conodont species Palmatolepis angularis, Palmatolepis crepida, Palmatolepis quadrantinodosolobata, and Palmatolepis regularis, that identify the Late and Latest crepida zones (Famennian, Late Devonian). In the same outcrop, but it geometrically lower beds, the presence of Gnathodus bilineatus Romulus indicates a late Visean to latest Serpukhovian age (Early Carboniferous). This is the first time these both ages are recorded in the area. These findings confirm the intense thrust tectonics affecting the Malaguide rocks in the area, and allow us to correlate this outcrop with other better-known sectors of the Malaguide Complex, affirming the presence of the Falcoña and Almogia formations, as well as that Upper Devonian strata in a stratigraphic position equivalent to the Santi Petri Fm, but with very different facies.
Keywords: Biostratigraphy, Famennian, Visean, Piar Group, Malaguide Complex.
How to cite: Navas-Parejo, P., Rodríguez-Cañero, R. & Martín-Algarra, A. 2015. New conodont data from a Devonian-Carboniferous succession in the central sector of the Betic Cordillera (SE Spain). Spanish Journal of Palaeontology, 30 (1), 133-146.
Received 26 November 2014, Accepted 20 April 2015, Published 30 June 2015
https://doi.org/10.7203/sjp.30.1.17229
