The Ediacaran–Fortunian palaeontological record of the Iberian Peninsula consists of organic-walled microfossils, skeletal fossils, trace fossils, non-mineralized tubular fossils and carbonaceous compressions. This record is particularly well developed within the Central Iberian Zone, where the most complete sedimentary succession across the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition is found. A remarkable facet of the Iberian Ediacaran fossil record is the only European occurrences of Cloudina and other late Ediacaran skeletal microfossils. True Ediacara-type fossils are still missing. The oldest fossils in the Iberian Peninsula are organic-walled microfossils (genus Tanarium) from the Ossa-Morena Zone.

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Ediacaran‒Fortunian Palaeontological Record in the Iberian Peninsula

  • S. Jensen,
  • J. J. Álvaro,
  • T. Palacios,
  • M. Martí Mus,
  • B. Martínez-Benítez

摘要

The Ediacaran–Fortunian palaeontological record of the Iberian Peninsula consists of organic-walled microfossils, skeletal fossils, trace fossils, non-mineralized tubular fossils and carbonaceous compressions. This record is particularly well developed within the Central Iberian Zone, where the most complete sedimentary succession across the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition is found. A remarkable facet of the Iberian Ediacaran fossil record is the only European occurrences of Cloudina and other late Ediacaran skeletal microfossils. True Ediacara-type fossils are still missing. The oldest fossils in the Iberian Peninsula are organic-walled microfossils (genus Tanarium) from the Ossa-Morena Zone.