Catavi Unit C3 near Cochabamba (Devonian of Bolivia)

Where: Bolivia (17.4° S, 66.2° W: paleocoordinates 65.7° S, 87.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Catavi Formation, Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• Unit C3. Emsian age suggested on basis of trilobite Burmeisteria.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; green sandstone and green siltstone

• Andean trough, dominated by deep-water sediments. Morphological features of Andinodesma suggest temporary shallowing.
• "fine-grained, olive to brown sandstones and siltstones...Fossils are rare but concentrated in some layers."

Primary reference: U. Rehfeld and J. Mehl. 1989. Andinodesma radicostata n. gen. n. sp., a grammysiid taxon from the Lower Devonian Catavi-Formation (Bolivia) and its autecological and phylogenetic implications. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 63(3/4):263-279 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25587: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 18.09.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
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Trilobita indet.
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Burmeisteria herscheli
Bivalvia
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"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Andinodesma radicostata n. gen. n. sp.
Andinodesma radicostata n. gen. n. sp. Rehfeld and Mehl 1989 clam
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet.
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
inarticulates
Ophiuroidea
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Ophiuroidea indet.
Ophiuroidea indet. Gray 1840 brittle star