Where: Chile (24.5° S, 69.5° W: paleocoordinates 64.4° S, 76.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Zorritas Formation, Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)
• fossils collected from unnamed upper member of the Zorritas Formation
•collection is a composite of 2 sections near the towns of Zorritas and El Salto
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithified sandstone and lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, trace
Reposited in the UNSM
Primary reference: P. E. Isaacson and J. T. Dutro. 1999. Lower Carboniferous brachiopods from Sierra de Almeida, northern Chile. Journal of Paleontology 73(4):625-633 [N. Heim/N. Heim/N. Heim]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34753: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 22.09.2003, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scyphozoa | |
Paraconularia sp. jellyfish | |
Gastropoda | |
Bellerophontoidea indet. M'Coy 1851 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Imitoceras sp. Schindewolf 1923 ammonite | |
Eocanites sp. Librovitch 1957 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Posidoniella sp. Koninck 1885 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Paurorhyncha chavelensis" = Azurduya chavelensis
"Paurorhyncha chavelensis" = Azurduya chavelensis Amos 1958 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Schuchertella" sp. Girty 1904 | |
Zoophycos sp. Massalongo 1855 |