Quebrada Monticelo Beds 8-11. (Devonian of Colombia)

Where: Colombia (6.3° N, 72.9° W: paleocoordinates 51.3° S, 47.5° W)

When: Floresta Formation, Late/Upper Emsian (402.5 - 391.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal shale

• alternating shales and silts with numerous levels of coquinas yielding an abundant and diverse fauna that comprises bryozoans, tabulate corals, brachiopods, crinoids, trilobites and ostracods

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. Morzadec, M. Mergl, C. Villarroel, P. Janvier, and P. R. Racheboeuf. 2015. Trilobites and inarticulate brachiopods from the Devonian Floresta Formation of Colombia: a review. Bulletin of Geosciences 90(2):331-358 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 229210: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.02.2023

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Lichida - Lichidae
Belenopyge contusa
Belenopyge contusa Hall and Clarke 1888 trilobite
 Proetida - Brachymetopidae
Cordania gasepiou
 Proetida - Proetidae
Dechenella boteroi, Mannopyge sp.
Dechenella boteroi Caster and Richter 1950 trilobite
Mannopyge sp. Ludvigsen 1987 trilobite
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Viaphacops cristata, Viaphacops sp.
Viaphacops sp. Maximova 1972 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calmoniidae
Calmoniidae indet., cf. Tarijactinoides "sp. nov.", Colombianaspis carvalhoae n. gen. n. sp.
Calmoniidae indet. Delo 1935 trilobite
cf. Tarijactinoides "sp. nov." Suárez-Soruco 1971 trilobite
Colombianaspis carvalhoae n. gen. n. sp. Morzadec et al. 2015 trilobite
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Anchiopsis armata, Coronura cf. lessepsensis, Synphoria stemmata
Synphoria stemmata Clarke 1900 trilobite