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