Research paper
A peculiar fusuline assemblage from the Tanes locality, Campo de Caso section (Pennsylvanian, upper Moscovian; Cantabrian Zone, Spain)
ELISA VILLA
Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Oviedo, c/ Jesús Arias de Velasco, s/n, 33005 Oviedo, Spain. evilla@uniovi.es
Corresponding author
KATSUMI UENO
Department of Earth System Science, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka 814-0180, Japan. katsumi@fukuoka-u.ac.jp
OSCAR MERINO-TOMÉ
Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Oviedo, c/ Jesús Arias de Velasco, s/n, 33005 Oviedo, Spain. omerino@geol.uniovi.es
JAIME MARTÍN-LLANEZA
Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Oviedo, c/ Jesús Arias de Velasco, s/n, 33005 Oviedo, Spain. jmartin@geol.uniovi.es
ABSTRACT
The Campo de Caso section (eastern part of the Cantabrian Zone, NW Spain) exposes a middle to upper Moscovian (Middle Pennsylvanian) succession, up to 3500-m thick, consisting of marine shelfal and deltaic siliciclastic and shale deposits with numerous intercalated fossiliferous limestones. A limestone outcropping in the upper part of this section, close to the village of Tanes, has yielded a fusuline assemblage composed of species of the genera Eostaffella, Pseudonovella, Ozawainella, Pseudostaffella, Neostaffella, Schubertella, Fusiella, Taitzehoella, Fusulinella, Beedeinaand Putrella. The specific composition of these genera, considered as a whole, indicates an early to mid-Myachkovian age; however, some of the taxa exhibit rare aspects, among which are the occurrence of pseudostaffellids having a “primitive” appearance recalling that of the Bashkirian Pseudostaffella, and a Putrella species exhibiting a wall that, at first glance, resembles the schwagerinid wall. Data gathered during this study question the validity of the genus Quasistaffella Solovieva 1986 and point to consider it as a junior synonymous of Pseudostaffella Thompson 1942.
Key words: Fusulines, Cantabrian Zone, upper Moscovian, Pennsylvanian.
How to cite: Villa, E., Ueno, K., Merino-Tomé, O. & Martín-Llaneza, J. 2021. A peculiar fusuline assemblage from the Tanes locality, Campo de Caso section (Pennsylvanian, upper Moscovian; Cantabrian Zone, Spain). [Una asociación peculiar de fusulinas en las calizas de Tanes, sección de Campo de Caso (Pensilvánico, Moscoviense superior; Zona Cantábrica, España)]. Spanish Journal of Palaeontology, 36 (1), 91-110.
Received 11 December 2020, Accepted 2 March 2021, Published online: 16 April
https://doi.org/10.7203/sjp.36.1.20561
