Geossítio 33 Vila Cova Ichnofossils
Life marks from the past…
The Vila Cova Ichnofossils occur in quartzite rock outcrops, which stand out in the landscape, near the village of Vila Cova. Here you can see a significant quantity and diversity of ichnofossils: marks of the activity of living beings (ichnofossils), where the Cruziana tracks, resulting from the activity of arthropods such as trilobites, stand out. The quartzite rocks are the result of the deposition in a shallow marine environment of sands where the activity of living beings that inhabited the seas around 475 million years ago has been preserved.
Informação Geológica
In this geosite, in sub-verticalized quartzite outcrops, there are huge stratification surfaces that expose a large quantity and diversity of ichnofossils, especially the occurrences of Cruziana furcifera, sometimes semicircular, Cruziana rugosa and Cruziana goldfussi. Other types of ichnofossils such as Cruziana barriosi, Rusophycus isp., Skolitos linearis, Monomorphichnus ispp. or Didymaulichnus ispp. give this site added importance for taphonomic and paleoecological studies.
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