Portuguese Paleontologists Discover Bizarre Crinoid Fossil in the Iberian Peninsula

In a scientific article recently published in the Geological Journal and published in the National Geographic Society (see here), with the participation of professor and researcher Pedro M. Callapez from the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Coimbra (DCTUC), the first three specimens were described. of the crinoid Tiaracrinus quadriforns recognized in the Iberian Peninsula, of which two specimens from São Pedro da Cova and discovered by doctoral student Rúben Domingos and paleontologist Pedro Correia from the Institute of Earth Sciences of the University of Porto, also co-authors of the aforementioned work, and another by Polentinos, Palencia (Northern Spain), donated for study by Felix Collantes, Spanish amateur paleontologist. This discovery, carried out, extends the spatial and temporal distribution of this interesting genus and species of Paleozoic Echinoderm, in what constitutes another contribution to the paleontological knowledge of the Devonian Period in Portugal, still relatively little known in many of its aspects. Rúben Domingos is currently finishing his doctoral thesis, supervised by Pedro M. Callapez and Paulo Legoinha from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, who is also a former DCTUC student.