The westernmost sector of the lower-Cambrian Los Navalucillos Formation: microbialites in tidal deposits, Central Iberian Zone, Toledo Mountains, Spain

In the Central Iberian Zone of the Iberian Massif, the Los Navalucillos Formation, interpreted as tidal and shallow-marine carbonate deposits, contains a significant archaeocyathan faunal assemblage. Two new characteristic exposures are described here from the westernmost outcrops of the formation, close to La Nava de Ricomalillo area: (i) La Estrella, where the rocks are strongly affected by contact metamorphism due to the nearby plutonic complex; and (ii) the Finca Higueruela succession, without calcimicrobial-archaeocyathan boundstones, although different microbialites as stromatolites and oncolites are conspicuous