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Los restos de asterozoos son sumamente escasos en el Ordovícico Medio y Superior del suroeste de Europa, si bien la auténtica diversidad de estos equinodermos está largamente enmascarada por su dificultad de fosilización. En este trabajo se presenta la segunda localidad centroibérica donde se registra el ofiuroideo Palaeura hispanica Smith, descubierto por primera vez en el sinclinal de Algodor- Milagro en los Montes de Toledo, y que ahora se identifica en el sinclinal del Guadarranque en las Villuercas. Se trata de un ejemplar completo conservado por su cara dorsal, que muestra la región central del disco erosionada dejando ver las placas orales. Uno de los brazos se halla torsionado, con su extremo ventral vuelto hacia arriba. La conformación de los brazos de P. neglecta Schuchert (Darriwiliense medio de Bohemia y el oeste de Inglaterra) presenta suficientes diferencias con P. hispanica (Darriwiliense medio de la Zona Centroibérica), como para considerar a ambos taxones como especies distintas, en lugar de subespecies geográficas. El ejemplar estudiado se expone en el Centro de Interpretación del Fósil de Navatrasierra, dependiente del Geoparque extremeño Villuercas-Ibores- Jara Fossil asterozoans are extremely rare in the Middle and Upper Ordovician of southwestern Europe, especially because they disarticulate rapidly after death and have a lower potential of fossilization. This paper presents the second record of Palaeura hispanica Smith in the Central Iberian Zone. This ophiuroid was first discovered in the Algodor-Milagro syncline in the Toledo Mountains, and is now characterized in the Guadarranque syncline in Las Villuercas. The single described specimen is preserved by its dorsal face, with the eroded central region of the disc showing the oral plates. One of the arms is turned up, showing details of its ventral surface. Plates from the arms of P. neglecta Schuchert (Middle Darriwilian of Bohemia and western England) show differences with P. hispanica (Middle Darriwilian of the Central Iberian Zone), suggesting they are different species instead of geographical subspecies. The specimen studied is currently exhibited at the Interpretation Center of the Fossil of Navatrasierra, belonging to the Villuercas-Ibores-Jara UNESCO Global Geopark (Extremadura, west of Spain)

Los restos de asterozoos son sumamente escasos en el Ordovícico Medio y Superior del suroeste de Europa, si bien la auténtica diversidad de estos equinodermos está largamente enmascarada por su dificultad de fosilización. En este trabajo se presenta la segunda localidad centroibérica donde se registra el ofiuroideo Palaeura hispanica Smith, descubierto por primera vez en el sinclinal de Algodor- Milagro en los Montes de Toledo, y que ahora se identifica en el sinclinal del Guadarranque en las Villuercas. Se trata de un ejemplar completo conservado por su cara dorsal, que muestra la región central del disco erosionada dejando ver las placas orales. Uno de los brazos se halla torsionado, con su extremo ventral vuelto hacia arriba. La conformación de los brazos de P. neglecta Schuchert (Darriwiliense medio de Bohemia y el oeste de Inglaterra) presenta suficientes diferencias con P. hispanica (Darriwiliense medio de la Zona Centroibérica), como para considerar a ambos taxones como especies distintas, en lugar de subespecies geográficas. El ejemplar estudiado se expone en el Centro de Interpretación del Fósil de Navatrasierra, dependiente del Geoparque extremeño Villuercas-Ibores- Jara, Fossil asterozoans are extremely rare in the Middle and Upper Ordovician of southwestern Europe, especially because they disarticulate rapidly after death and have a lower potential of fossilization. This paper presents the second record of Palaeura hispanica Smith in the Central Iberian Zone. This ophiuroid was first discovered in the Algodor-Milagro syncline in the Toledo Mountains, and is now characterized in the Guadarranque syncline in Las Villuercas. The single described specimen is preserved by its dorsal face, with the eroded central region of the disc showing the oral plates. One of the arms is turned up, showing details of its ventral surface. Plates from the arms of P. neglecta Schuchert (Middle Darriwilian of Bohemia and western England) show differences with P. hispanica (Middle Darriwilian of the Central Iberian Zone), suggesting they are different species instead of geographical subspecies. The specimen studied is currently exhibited at the Interpretation Center of the Fossil of Navatrasierra, belonging to the Villuercas-Ibores-Jara UNESCO Global Geopark (Extremadura, west of Spain)

[ES] Los graptolitos silúricos de la Zona Centroibérica suelen conservarse aplastados en pizarras negras, pero en algunos yacimientos los rabdosomas pueden retener parte de su relieve original o conservarse incluso en tres dimensiones. La mayoría de las veces existe una piritización temprana de los rabdosomas por la acción de bacterias sulforreductoras en ambiente anóxico, a la que se suma la génesis de nódulos. La alteración posterior de la pirita deja los graptolitos en forma de moldes, que pueden ser estudiados mediante vaciados en látex. Otros fenómenos de piritización multifásica en sedimentos gruesos conducen a la formación de nódulos de pirita que incluyen en su interior graptolitos huecos y en tres dimensiones, con el peridermo replicado delicadamente en óxidos de hierro. En otras ocasiones, los graptolitos preservados en nódulos generados en sedimentos pelágicos incluyen el recrecimiento de fosfatos sobre el peridermo de los graptolitos, que llegan a conservarse huecos y con estructuras de rellenos geopetales. Finalmente, se presenta el único caso de calizas con graptolitos conocido en el Silúrico centroibérico., [EN] Silurian graptolites form the Central-Iberian Zone are often preserved as flattened moulds in black shales, but in some cases rhabdosomes can maintain a part of its original relief, and even can appear three-dimensionally preserved. The majority of these cases can be related to an early pyritisation of the periderm favoured by bacterial activity under anoxic conditions, which also led to the genesis of nodules on the same beds. Further oxidation and dissapearance of iron minerals limited the preservation of graptolites to external moulds, that can be studied through latex casts. A different way of preservation of 3-D graptolites occurs in coarse sandstone that enhanced multiphase pyritisation fenomena, where ferruginous nodules enclosing rhabdosomes reveal that the framboidal pyrite that mineralized the periderm during very early diagenesis was remarkably resilient not only to subsequent deformation, but also to the differential weathering of the massive overpyrite that constitute the nodules. The pyritised graptolite periderm was finally replicated by iron-oxides with a minor proportion of phyllosilicates. The occurrence of “hollow” graptolites is also known from silico-phosphatic nodules, where the organic periderm was finely replicated by phosphatic overgrowths that coated the inner and outer surfaces of the rhabdosome. Occasional pseudostalactites of phosphatic minerals and colloidal silica partially occupied the empty spaces. Graptolite internal moulds occurring in limestone are very rare and are restricted to a single locality within the studied region.

42 páginas, 17 figuras, 5 fotos., [EN] The Ordovician System outcrops extensively in the northeastern of Portugal, in the septentrional sector of the Central-Iberian Zone. The level of lithostratigraphic knowledge about these materials is notably lower than that of identical materials in other Portuguese regions and in a comparable peleogeographic scope. In this sense, the Ordovician of Trás-os-Montes remains, in many aspects, terra incognita. Recent fieldwork focused in the Ordovician biostratigraphy of northeastern Portugal lead us to consider the conveniente of making a deeper lithostratigraphical revision of these materials. It is a much needed amendment due to the proliferation of informal units and operative divisions that exist in the region, whose significance also varies for each of the authors, and the whole totality was examined under the requirements established by the international Stratigraphic Guide. The new lithostratigraphic scheme here proposed, unified for the entire region, considers the formal definition of 19 lithostratigraphical units, most of them of siliciclastic nature. The stratigraphic succession includes one group, eight formations, seven members and three individual beds. Each unit of equal or lower range than the Formation is clearly defined regarding its lithology and boundaries at the stratotype, considering its regional aspects, subdivisions, dating, sedimentary environment and detailed revision of the synonymy, as well the thickness ascribed from the previous authors to each concrete assemblage. The stratigraphic study allowed us to characterize and contextualize several units attributed to the Upper Ordovician, scarcely or partially unknown in the region until now, as well as the detection of stratigraphic gaps with different ranges and generally with great paleogeograhic interest. The new lithostratigraphic scheme here formalized for the Ordovician of Trás-os-Montes allows a precise knowledge and correlation of this region with the remaining Portuguese Central-Iberian Zone (Valongo, Buçaco, Amêndoa-Maçâo) and in the frame of southwestern Europe., [PT] A recente realizaçâo de trabalhos, centrados no estabelecimento da bioestratigrafia do Ordovícico do nordeste de Portugal (Zona Centro-Ibérica), conduziu a urna profunda revisiâo litoestratigáfica destes materiais, â luz dos requerimentos litoestratigráficos estabelecidos pelo Guia Estratigráfico Internacional e justificada pela grande proliferaçâo de unidades informais e divisôes operativas existentes na regiâo. Esta nova proposta, unificada para a regiâo transmontana, contempla a definiçâo formal de um total de 19 unidades litoestratigráficas, a maioria das quais de natureza siliciclástica, repartidas por um grupo, oito formaçôes, sete membros e três camadas. Este estudo permitiu caracterizar e contextualizar diversas unidades atribuídas ao Ordovícico Superior, até agora praticamente ignoradas na regiâo, assim como a detecçâo de lacunas estratigráficas de grande interesse paleogeográfico. O novo esquema litoestratigráfico, agora apresentado, permite correlacionar de forma precisa e nivelar o conhecimento relativamente à restante Zona Centro-Ibérica portuguesa (Valongo, Buçaco, Amêndoa-Maçâo) e ao restante Ordovícico do sudoeste da Europa.

24 páginas, 4 figuras, 2 láminas, 1 tabla., [EN] New palaeontological data from Upper Ordovician formations of NW Spain (Caurel-Peñalba and Truchas synclines) are documented. The «Trigal limestones» of the Casaio Formation, the La Aquiana Formation and calcareous pebbles of the Rozadais Formation have yielded conodont assemblages indicating the Ashgillian Anzorphognathus ordovicicus Biozone. Scabbardella altipes (Henningsmoen), Panderodus gracilis (Branson & Mehl), Anzorplzognathus ordovicicus Branson & Mehl, Amorphogizatlzus sp., Sagittodontiíza robusta Knüpfer, Sagittodontina? sp., Icriodella sp. and Hamarodus europaeus (Serpagli) have been identified and described. Stratigraphic correlations between the different structural units are discussed, as well as the regional context of the Upper Ordovician sedimentation. According to a new model which conciliates the local geotectonic setting with the global paleoclimatic events, the Rozadais Formation underwent a glaciomarine influence during the Hirnantian, and is clearly younger in age that other Ashgill units which consist or include pre-Hirnantian limestones (La Aquiana and Casaio formations)., [ES] Se presentan las asociaciones de conodontos ordovícicos registradas en las «calizas del Trigal» de la Formación Casaio, en la Formación La Aquiana y en los cantos calcáreos englobados en la Formación Rozadais, pertenecientes a afloramientos del sinclinorio de Truchas (norte de la Zona Centroibérica) y del sinclinal del Caurel-Peñalba (sur de la Zona Asturoccidental-leonesa). Las formas identificadas son Scabbardella altipes (Henningsmoen), Paizdei~odus gracilis (Branson y Mehl), Amorphognathus ordovicicus Branson y Mehl, Anzorphognathus sp., Sagittodoiztiiza robusta Knüpfer, Sagittodontina? sp., Icriodella sp. y Hanzarodus europaeus (Serpagli), que corresponden a la Biozona de Aínorphognathus ordovicicus del Ashgill y se describen e ilustran en el apartado sistemático. En función de estos datos y sus circunstancias estratigráficas, se propone una correlación general de las unidades del Ordovícico Superior de la región, presentándose un nuevo modelo que armoniza el marco geotectónico local con los eventos globales del Ashgill comunes a la región nord-gondwaniense. En este sentido, se considera un influjo glaciomarino para la Formación Rozadais (Hirnantiense), cuyo depósito no sería coetáneo con las unidades calcáreas pre-Hirnantienses (Trigal y La Aquiana)., Este trabajo se inscribe en los proyectos PB94-1330 y PB96-0839 de la DGES, y sus resultados son también una contribución al Proyecto 410 del PICG (IUGS-UNESCO), así como al Proyecto «Iberia» del Programa EUROPROBE (European Science Foundation). La participación del primer autor fue posible gracias a una beca postdoctoral de la Comunidad de Madrid, que lleva por título «Aplicación de Conodontos en bioestratigrafía de alta resolución y geotermometría de materiales ordovícicos y silúricos de España» (1998-1999).

A typical example of the Helminthopsis ichnogulld formed by deep deposit-feeder tiers is presented from an Upper Ordovician shallow marine succession in Central Spain. The monospecific ichnoassociation is composed by Helminthopsis abeli Ksiazkiewicz, massively recorded from a single bed within a sillciclastic alternation with some storm influence ofCaradoc age, in the lower part of the "Bancos Mixtos" Formation, south of the town of Torrenueva (Province of Ciudad Real)

A typical example of the Helminthopsis ichnogulld formed by deep deposit-feeder tiers is presented from an Upper Ordovician shallow marine succession in Central Spain. The monospecific ichnoassociation is composed by Helminthopsis abeli Ksiazkiewicz, massively recorded from a single bed within a sillciclastic alternation with some storm influence ofCaradoc age, in the lower part of the "Bancos Mixtos" Formation, south of the town of Torrenueva (Province of Ciudad Real)

The type specimen ofthe Lower Cambrian (Bilbilian) trilobite «Ellipsocephalus pradoanus» Verneuil & Barrande, 1855 is redescribed and illustrated. It is stored in the Verneuil collection ofthe Claude-Bernard University at Lyon (France). By means of the cranidial characteristics it has been doubtfully related with the genus Realaspis, and the poor preservation of the lectotype of R. ? pradoanus supports the restriction of the species to this unique specimen

Some scarce and bad preserved bivalves have been described from few localities lying at the upper part of the Armorican quartzite facies in Central Spain. Middle Arenig faunas include two palaeotaxodont forms (Praenucula oehlerti and Cardiolaria sp.), and two different palaeoheterodonts (Modiolopsis sp. and ?Actinodontoida indet.). Previous reports of other Arenig bivalves, especially actinodontoids, from coeval quartzites of northwestern, Central and northeastern Spain, as well as from Central Portugal, have been also briefly examined. The Iberian faunas show close affinities with the well known Arenig assemblages from the «Grès armoricain» of Western France, and add new data for the scenic reconstruction of the Lower Ordovician bivalve radiations on the northwestern Gondwanan shelves

The type specimen ofthe Lower Cambrian (Bilbilian) trilobite «Ellipsocephalus pradoanus» Verneuil & Barrande, 1855 is redescribed and illustrated. It is stored in the Verneuil collection ofthe Claude-Bernard University at Lyon (France). By means of the cranidial characteristics it has been doubtfully related with the genus Realaspis, and the poor preservation of the lectotype of R. ? pradoanus supports the restriction of the species to this unique specimen

3 páginas, 2 figuras.-- Trabajo presentado en la 21ª Sesión Científica, Huelva 1996., Two new fossil localities yielding graptolites of the lundgreni and leíntwardinensís biozones (early Homerian and basal Ludfordian, respectively) are studied from the Alange region, which lies on the southernmost part of the Central Iberian Zone. Previous mentions to graptolites from a nearby outcrop were also reviewed and the orignal specimens reassigned to some earlier horizons in the Wenlock. All these data confirm the presence of Silurian rocks over a region very imprecisely known in terms of Paleozoic sedimentary geology and paleogeography., Este trabajo es una contribución al Proyecto 351 del PICG (IUGS-UNESCO), y los estudios de campo fueron financiados por el Proyecto AMB92-1037-C02-01 de la DGICYT.

The first record outside Bohemia of the recumbent diploporid Aristocystites metroi is presented. It consists of a remarkable specimen from the Dobrotivian shales of CaIzada c/e Calatrava (Central Iberian Zone). The Spanish occurrence of the species is markedly older (Dobrotivian: Middle Ordovician) than in Bohemia (Zahoranlan and Kosovian; Upper Ordovician). Our specimen derives also from much shallower environments with respect to the type material

The first record outside Bohemia of the recumbent diploporid Aristocystites metroi is presented. It consists of a remarkable specimen from the Dobrotivian shales of CaIzada c/e Calatrava (Central Iberian Zone). The Spanish occurrence of the species is markedly older (Dobrotivian: Middle Ordovician) than in Bohemia (Zahoranlan and Kosovian; Upper Ordovician). Our specimen derives also from much shallower environments with respect to the type material

Se presenta el hallazgo de un bellerofóntido del Ordovicico medio de los Montes de Toledo (Zona Centroibérica), que presenta diversos depósitos secundarios en la superficie externa de la concha, interpretados como perinductura, inductura y coinductura. Tales depósitos se consideraban característicos de ciertos gasterópodos devónico-pérmicos (Euphemitidae), por lo que su primer registro entre los sinuítidos ordovícicos plantea unas relaciones hlogenéticas inéditas con un modo de secreción similar en ambos grupos y, secundariamente, ello representa un nuevo argumento en favor de la clasificación de los Sinuitidae entre los gasterópodos

A new continuous section with Aeronian to lower Telychian graptolites is described near Corral de Calatrava (province of Ciudad Real). The transition between the «Criadero Quartzite» and the overlying black shales is detailed. The section is correlated with another similar sucessions around the Ordovician/ Silurian boundary in the southern part of the Central Iberian Zone, and chronostratigraphic aspects are briefly analyzed and discussed. The sedimentation of the «Criadero Quartzite» took place during Rhuddanian to late Aeronian times; a minor hiatus was developed at the upper limit with the graptolitic black shales. The base of the latter is not older than the palmeus sub-biozone of the early Telychian

Two new fossil localities yielding graptolites of the, (undgreni and leintwardinensis biozones (early Homerian and basal Lùdfordiàn, respectively) are studied from the Al an gè region, which lies on the southernmost part of the Central Iberian Zone, Previous mentions to graptolites from a nearby outcrop were also reviewed and the original specimens reassigned to some earlier horizons in the Wenjock AH these data confirm the presence of Silurian rocks over a region very imprecisely known in terms of Paleozoic sedimentary geology and paleogeograppy

Se presenta el hallazgo de un bellerofóntido del Ordovicico medio de los Montes de Toledo (Zona Centroibérica), que presenta diversos depósitos secundarios en la superficie externa de la concha, interpretados como perinductura, inductura y coinductura. Tales depósitos se consideraban característicos de ciertos gasterópodos devónico-pérmicos (Euphemitidae), por lo que su primer registro entre los sinuítidos ordovícicos plantea unas relaciones hlogenéticas inéditas con un modo de secreción similar en ambos grupos y, secundariamente, ello representa un nuevo argumento en favor de la clasificación de los Sinuitidae entre los gasterópodos

The Silurian sequence in the Herrera del Duque syncline (Southern Central Iberian zone) starts with 20 m of black shales (Guadarranquejo Formation) which lay disconformably upon the Hirnantian diamictites (Gualija Formation). Within the black shales, eight graptolite horizons have been recorded (A-H) and two (I-J) at the base of the overlying sandy alternances. A Telychian (post-Turriculatus Zone) age for the Guadarranquejo Formation has been suggested, the Llandovery/Wenlock boundary lying probably near its top, La secuencia silúrica en el sinclinal de Herrera del Duque (zona sur Centroibérica) empieza con 20 m de lutitas negras (Formación Guadarranquejo), las cuales se apoyan paraconformes sobre diamictitas del Hirnatiense (Formación Gualija). Dentro de las lutitas negras, se han encontrado ocho horizontes de graptolitos (A-H), y dos (I-J) en la base de las alternancias arenosas suprayacentes. Se ha sugerido la era Telychiense (zona post-Turriculatus) para la Formación Guadarranquejo. El límite Llandovery/Wenlock se encuentra, probablemente, cerca del techo.

[ES] Se analiza la distribución vertical de más de doscientas especies fósiles reconocidas en las «capas con Tristani» de España central, cuya estratigrafía también es objeto de una primera revisión. La fauna está compuesta principalmente por trilobites, moluscos, braquiópodos, equinodermos, crustáceos y graptolitos, entre los cuales algunos géneros y especies se citan por vez primera en España. La extensión vertical restringida de ciertos trilobites, braquiópodos y graptolitos permite la caracterización de algunas Biozonas que tienen grandes posibilidades de ser correlacionadas con otras áreas peninsulares y el Macizo Armoricano francés. En el trabajo empleamos la Serie Dobrotiviense de Bohemia como sustituto (aprox.) del Llandeilo de la escala patrón británica, ya que este último es muy difícil de caracterizar en el sector estudiado por corresponder a un contexto biogeográfico y paleogeográfico muy diferente del de las áreas-tipo del Ordovícico., [EN] The vertical distribution of more than two-hundred fossil species determined in the "Tristani beds" of Central Spain is analized. At the same time, their stratigraphy is reviewed. Its fauna is composed mainly by trilobites, molluscs, brachiopods, echinoderms, crustaceans and graptolites, some of whose species are listed for the first time in Spain. Ihe restricted vertical distribution of certain trilobites, brachiopods and graptolites allows the charachterization of several biozones with a high possibility of correlation with other peninsular areas and with the French Armorican Massif. In this study we make use of the Dobrotivian Series of Bohemia as a substitute of the Llandeilo of the British standard scale, as the latter proves to be exceedingly difficult to charachíerize in the studied region, because of its belonging to a biogeographic and palaeogeographic background very different from that of the Ordovician type-areas.

3 páginas, 1 figura.-- Trabajo presentado en la 4ª Sesión Científica, Granada 1987., The Ordovician outcrop at NW Adamuz (Córdoba province), previously regarded as belonging to in the Ossa Morena Zone by some authors, contains several fossiliferous levels of Lower Llanvirn, Upper Llanvirn-Llandeilo and Caradoc (pre-Actonian) age. The Central lberian affinities of the faunas constitute an additional argument for the consideration of the Obejo-Valsequillo-Puebla de la Reina Domain as the southern margin of the Central Iberian Zone during the Paleozoic., Este artículo es una contribución al Proyecto "Bioestratigrafia y Paleocología del Paleozoico inferior del SO, del Macizo Hespérico", financiado por el CSIC-CAICYT.