Echinoderms from the Ordovician of Portugal are poorly known. Delgado (1870, 1892, 1897, 1908) was the first author who recorded several cystoids, crinoids and coronates from Buçaco, Valongo and Amêndoa-Mação areas (Central Iberian Zone) but did not provide any description or illustration justifying his identification. Recent taxonomic studies focused only on Portuguese Middle Ordovician pelmatozoans, being the Upper Ordovician forms still undescribed. Here we present a review of the original collection from Delgado (1897, 1908), coming from three levels of Katian age in the Buçaco area, central Portugal. Delgado’s collections are stored in Museu Geológico de Lisboa (Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia); the echinoderm material is properly identified by its original labels that contain precise locality information from each specimen.

This work is a contribution to project CGL2012-39471 of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, and to project RYC- 2012-10576 (S.Z.).

Comunicación presentada al congreso: Progress in echinoderm paleobiology (PEP´15)

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