Locality 537, Cerro Coatcha, Peru (Silurian to of Peru)

Where: Peru (15.4° S, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 47.6° S, 117.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Llandovery to Llandovery (443.4 - 423.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and gray, green, sandy siltstone

• Mixture of Clarkeia and Harringtonia Communities. BA 2.
• "The unit begins with a sequence of gray-green sandy lutite 100-150 m thick. Fossils found in two sandy units within the sandy-lutite sequence, and also in a thick, massive, sandstone a little higher in the section (Locality 537)."

Primary reference: G. Laubacher, A. J. Boucot, and J. Gray. 1982. Additions to Silurian stratigraphy, lithofacies, biogeography and paleontology of Bolivia and southern Peru. Journal of Paleontology 56(5):1138-1170 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25078: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 27.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Scolecodonta indet.
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida -
Rhynchonellida indet.
 Rhynchonellida - Eatoniidae
Clarkeia antisiensis
Trilobita
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Trilobita indet.
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
Harringtonia
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Harringtonia acutiplicata