Paper No. 113-8
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FIRST OCCURRENCE OF THE LAURENTIAN TRILOBITE PSEUDATOPS RETICULATUS (WALCOTT) FROM THE MARIANIAN (CAMBRIAN SERIES 2) OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA
New atopid trilobites are described from the Marianian (Cambrian Series 2) of northern Huelva province (Andalusia, Spain), in the Sierra de Aracena y Picos de Aroche Natural Park. The Laurentian species Pseudatops reticulatus (Walcott) is recognized for the first time in the Mediterranean subprovince. Specimens of P. reticulatus are described from the Cumbres beds and Herrerías shale, dated as middle-late Marianian (Cambrian Series 2, Stage 4). Pseudatops is present in the Taconic Allochthon, western and Eastern Avalonia and Siberia. Its presence in the Iberian Peninsula allows biostratigraphic and paleobiogeographic correlations between Avalonian and Taconic localities with the Mediterranean subprovince. This work is a contribution to the IGCP Project 652.