Biohorizon in the Azygograptus lapworthi Biozone of the Chaupi Uno section (Ordovician of Bolivia)

Also known as Chaupi Uno section

Where: Bolivia (21.3° S, 65.2° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 32.7° S, 169.0° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Azygograptus lapworthi graptolite zone, Pircancha Formation, Dapingian (471.3 - 469.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Material housed in the paleontological collection of the Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Tierra (CICTERRA), CONICET and Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina, under the prefix CEGH-UNC.

Primary reference: B. A. Toro and N. C. Herrera Sánchez. 2019. Stratigraphical distribution of the Ordovician graptolite Azygograptus Nicholson & Lapworth in the Central Andean Basin (northwestern Argentina and southern Bolivia). Comptes Rendus Palevol 18:493-507 [E. Vlachos/N. Herrera Sánchez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 214526: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Nexxys Herrera Sánchez on 05.10.2020

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Taxonomic list

Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Azygograptus lapworthi Nicholson 1875 graptolite