Where: Bolivia (16.3° S, 68.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° S, 48.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Copacabana Formation, Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• 87 m above contact with Carboniferous

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, red limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Servicio Geologico de Bolivia, Universidad de Chiva (Japan)

Primary reference: J. Arellano. 1983. Trilobites del Permico inferior de Bolivia. Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Etudes Andines 12:91-102 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117017: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.09.2011

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