Quebrada Cordero, Rio Capara, and Quebrada Liran (Ordovician to of Venezuela)

Also known as Capara Fm., Quebrada Cordero, Rio Capara, and Quebrada Liran (Merida Andes regio

Where: Merida Andes, Venezuela (8.0° N, 71.0° W: paleocoordinates 58.1° S, 89.4° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Caparo Formation, Costonian to Costonian (460.9 - 455.8 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, gray, sandy siltstone and limestone

• dark gray fine to medium-grained sandy siltstone intercalated with occasional sandstone and limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. C. Arnold and W. R. Smith. 1964. Paleozoic Rocks of Merida Andes, Venezuela. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 48(1):70-84 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8858: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 01.09.2000

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Streptelasma sp. Hall 1847 horn coral
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Allonychia sp. Ulrich 1895 clam
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Bicuspina sp. Havlicek 1950
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Sowerbyella sp. Jones 1928
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
Titanambonites sp. Cooper 1956
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
? Rostricellula sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1942
 Orthida - Orthidae
Orthambonites sp. Pander 1830
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Ptychopleurella sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Glyptorthis sp. Foerste 1914
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
? Plectorthis sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
 Orthida - Heterorthidae
Heterorthina sp. Bancroft 1928
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Paucicrura sp. Cooper 1956
Dalmanella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Onniella sp. Bancroft 1928
 Orthida - Draboviidae
Pionodema sp. Foerste 1912
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata - Aisenvergiidae
Eridotrypa sp. Ulrich 1893
Trilobita
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
? Salterolithus sp. Bancroft 1929 trilobite
Reuscholithus sp. Bancroft 1929 trilobite
Marrolithus sp. Bancroft 1929 trilobite
Cryptolithus sp. Green 1832 trilobite
Onnia sp. Bancroft 1933 trilobite
 Olenida - Olenidae
Porterfieldia sp. Cooper 1953 trilobite
Triarthrus sp. Green 1832 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene sp. Shirley 1936 trilobite
Pterobranchia
  -
 Dendroidea - Acanthograptidae
 Graptoloidea - Nemagraptidae
Amphigraptus sp. graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Glossograptidae
 Graptoloidea - Diplograptidae
Orthograptus sp. Lapworth 1873 graptolite
Corynoides sp. Nicholson 1867 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Climacograptidae
Climacograptus sp. Hall 1865 climacograptid
 Graptoloidea - Dicranograptidae
Nemagraptus sp. graptolite
Dicranograptus sp. Hall 1865 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Retiolitidae