Abstract
ABSTRACT The present work is an overview of the current knowledge about the genus Marocella on the Iberian Peninsula, describing new specimens from the lower and middle Cambrian (Cambrian Series 2 and Miaolingian) of the southwestern Ossa-Morena Zone and Iberian Chains. Specimens from the lower Cambrian of the Ossa-Morena Zone are described as M. morenensis. Also, we found specimens in the Iberian Chains, which have been described earlier from the Cantabrian Mountains and dealt with as Marocella cf. morenensis. These specimens were found in strata of the latest Stage 4 of Cambrian or earliest Wuliuan. The youngest specimens from the upper Leonian to middle Caesaraugustian regional Stage (Wuliuan to early Drumian) of Iberian Chains are newly discovered material and classified as M. aff. morenensis. On the basis of new material of M. morenensis, M. mira and M. morenensis are regarded as different species herein, and the biostratigraphic and palaeobiogeographic distribution of Marocella is reviewed.
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