Where: Venezuela (10.5° N, 72.5° W: paleocoordinates 47.9° S, 44.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Cano del Oeste Formation (Rio Cachira Group), Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: prodelta; green mudstone and sandstone
Collection methods: Abundances are given by authors.
Primary reference: T. M. Sanchez and J. L. Benedetto. 1983. Paleoecologia, comunidades bentonicas y sucesion paleoambiental en el Grupo Rio Cachiri, Devonico, Sierra de Perija, Venezueal. Ameghiniana 20(3-4):163-198 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35900: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 08.01.2004, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid | |
Gastropoda | |
Bellerophontoidea indet. M'Coy 1851 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Ptychopteria (Actinopteria) sp." = Actinopteria
"Ptychopteria (Actinopteria) sp." = Actinopteria Hall 1884 oyster | |
Goniophora sp. Phillips 1848 clam | |
Strophomenata | |
"Devonochonetes" sp. Muir-Wood 1962 | |
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Leptostrophia sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Schizophoria sp. King 1850 | |
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Cyrtina sp. Davidson 1858 | |
Cyrtospirifer sp. Nalivkin 1924 | |
Tylothyris sp. North 1920
Mucrospirifer sp. Grabau 1931 | |
Trilobita | |
Greenops sp. Delo 1935 trilobite |