Where: Colombia (6.0° N, 73.0° W: paleocoordinates 51.3° S, 50.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Emsian to Emsian (407.6 - 387.7 Ma)
• Age range from PBDB ref. 9639. About 130 m above base of section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; brown shale
Collection methods: bulk
Primary reference: S. F. Barrett. 1986. Paleoecology and stratigraphy of Devonian sediments in the northern Andes, Colombia: paleogeographic implications [Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Chicago]. 1-329 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35881: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 08.01.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Rugosa indet. horn coral | |
Trilobita | |
Phacopidae indet. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite | |
Strophomenata | |
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Leptostrophiidae indet. Caster 1939 | |
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Eodevonaria sp. Twenhofel 1914 | |
Devonochonetes sp. Muir-Wood 1962 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Elytha sp." = Elita
"Elytha sp." = Elita | |
Acrospirifer sp. Wedekind 1926 | |
Mucrospiriferidae indet. Pitrat 1965 | |
Meristellidae indet. Waagen 1883 | |
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Fenestellidae indet. King 1850 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
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Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail |