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Linking Palaeozoic palaeogeography of the Betic Cordillera to the Variscan Iberian Massif: new insight through the first conodonts of the Nevado-Filábride Complex

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Graphite-rich metamorphic limestones included within low-grade black schists of the lowest Nevado-Filábride tectonic unit in the Sierra de Baza (Bodurria Unit) provided the first conodonts found in this complex (Declinognathodus bernesgae, D. inaequalis. D. cf. praenoduliferus, and Idioprioniodus sp.). This demonstrates the early Bashkirian age of the sedimentary protoliths, and their deposition in open marine anoxic environments of a continental margin that opened towards the E and that was related to the Palaeotethys. This breakthrough offers strong support for the hypothesis that the lower Nevado-Filábride units show stratigraphic and palaeogeographic affinities with the external domains of the Iberian Massif (Palentian Domain of the Cantabrian Zone in particular). Consequently, this part of the Betic Internal Zones must be related to the basement of the South-Iberian Palaeomargin and excluded from the Alborán Domain tectonostratigraphic terrane.

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We acknowledge J.R. Martínez Catalán and an anonymous reviewer for their comments and suggestions that notably improved the paper. This work is supported by Grants CGL2016-75679P, CGL2016-75224-R, and CGL2015-71692-P (MINECO/FEDER, Spain) and RNM-208 (Junta de Andalucía, Spain). We acknowledge the help of Ángela Cabrera-Porras and Ana Vélez-Felipe for their help during laboratory work for conodont sample preparation, and Isabel Sánchez-Almazo (C.I.C.-UGR) for the assistance during the SEM study.

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  1. Departamento de Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Universidad de Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain

    Rosario Rodríguez-Cañero

  2. Departamento de Geodinámica, Universidad de Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain

    Antonio Jabaloy-Sánchez

  3. Estación Regional del Noroeste, Instituto de Geología, UNAM, 83240, Hermosillo, Mexico

    Pilar Navas-Parejo

  4. Departamento de Estratigrafía y Paleontología and IACT (UGR-CSIC), Universidad de Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain

    Agustín Martín-Algarra

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Rodríguez-Cañero, R., Jabaloy-Sánchez, A., Navas-Parejo, P. et al. Linking Palaeozoic palaeogeography of the Betic Cordillera to the Variscan Iberian Massif: new insight through the first conodonts of the Nevado-Filábride Complex. Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch) 107, 1791–1806 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-017-1572-8

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