Where: Venezuela (10.5° N, 72.5° W: paleocoordinates 47.3° S, 45.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Cano del Oeste Formation (Rio Cachira Group), Eifelian to Eifelian (393.3 - 382.7 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; brown, gray sandstone and mudstone
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 35901: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 08.01.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Chonetidina indet. Muir-Wood 1955 | |
"Devonochonetes" sp. Muir-Wood 1962 | |
Leptostrophia sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Orthospirifer sp. Pitrat 1975 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Pseudaviculopecten sp. Newell 1938 scallop | |
"Pteriacea indet." = Pterioidea
"Pteriacea indet." = Pterioidea Gray 1847 oyster | |
"Ptychopteria (Actinopteria) sp." = Actinopteria
"Ptychopteria (Actinopteria) sp." = Actinopteria Hall 1884 oyster |