Where: Venezuela (10.5° N, 72.5° W: paleocoordinates 46.6° S, 45.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Cano del Oeste Formation (Rio Cachira Group), Givetian (387.7 - 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 35902: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 08.01.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Pleurodictyum sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral | |
Rugosa indet. horn coral | |
Trilobita | |
Phacops sp. Emmrich 1839 trilobite | |
Bivalvia | |
Cuneamya sp. Hall and Whitfield 1875 clam | |
Paracyclas sp. Hall 1843 clam | |
Pseudaviculopecten sp. Newell 1938 scallop | |
Leptodesma sp. Hall 1883 oyster
Ptychopteria sp. Hall 1883 oyster | |
Gastropoda | |
Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840 snail | |
Bembexia sp. Oehlert and Oehlert 1888 snail | |
Stenolaemata | |
Strophomenata | |
Leptostrophia sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
"Devonochonetes" sp. Muir-Wood 1962 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Orthida indet. Schuchert and Cooper 1932 | |
Spinatrypa sp. Stainbrook 1951 | |
Atrypina sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Orthospirifer sp. Pitrat 1975 | |
Tylothyris sp. North 1920 | |
Cyrtina sp. Davidson 1858 | |
Tentaculitida indet. Ljaschenko 1955 |