Resumen de Braquiópodos fósiles del Jurásico Inferior de la Sierra de Los Frailes (Alicante). Resultados preliminares

José Francisco Baeza Carratalá, José Enrique Tent Manclús

• The revision of the fossil collection of Daniel Jiménez de Cisneros join with the re-study of his Early Jurassic quarries has allowed to obtain new collections of brachiopods, mainly of Sinemurian and Plienbachian age. These collections contain, in addition to the classic species described, new species or species mentioned for the first time in the Early Jurassic of the Betic Range. In the present paper, an outcrop in the Sierra de los Frailes (Hondón de las Nieves, Alicante), located in the front of a aggregate quarry which containing an abundant fauna of brachiopods is characterized. New studies, at the moment in course, will preview more diversity and greater abundance of this fauna, because of the result of new collections.