Field trip: Palaeozoic echinoderms from northern Spain

Abstract

Spain contains some of the most extensive and fossiliferous Palaeozoic outcrops in Europe, including echinoderm faunas that are internationally signpalaificant in terms of systematics, paleoecology and palaeobiogeography. This field trip will review some of the most remarkable Palaeozoic localities in North Spain. It will be divided into two different but related geological and geographical areas, the Cantabrian Zone in northern Spain and its southeastern prolongation, known as the Iberian Chains