Sampaya Section, Yampupata (Permian of Bolivia)

Where: Bolivia (16.1° S, 69.1° W: paleocoordinates 31.9° S, 48.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Copacabana Formation, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• 174 m above contact with Carboniferous

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified 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 117018: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
"Paladin yampupatensis n. sp." = Ditomopyge yampupatensis
"Paladin yampupatensis n. sp." = Ditomopyge yampupatensis Arellano 1983 trilobite