Along "Coboce" Road near Irpa Irpa Railway Station (Ordovician of Bolivia)

Where: Capinota, Bolivia (17.7° S, 66.3° W: paleocoordinates 47.0° S, 125.6° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Capinota Formation, Dapingian (470.0 - 467.3 Ma)

• Unknown formation name. Was Llanvirn, but Cocks & Popov (2019) redate this as Dapingian PJW: This should be Capinota given the area & age.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified sandstone and siltstone

• rose-colored sandstone, siltstone and graywacke

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: V. Havlicek and L. Branisa. 1980. Ordovician brachiopods of Bolivia: Succession of assemblages, climate control, affinity to Anglo-French and Bohemian provinces. Rozpravy Ceskoslovenske Akademie Ved. Rada Matematickych a Prirodnich Ved. Academia Praha, Prague, Czechoslovakia 90(1):1-54 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8782: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 29.08.2000, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Neseuretus sp. Hicks 1873 trilobite
Not in Havlicek & Branisia
Synhomalonotus kobayashi Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
"Lingula muensteri" = Dignomia munsterii
"Lingula muensteri" = Dignomia munsterii d’Orbigny 1842
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Orthidae
Paralenorthis immitatrix n. sp. Havlicek and Branisa 1980
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Valcourea sp. Raymond 1911
Not in Havlicek & Branisia