Where: Colombia (7.1° N, 73.1° W: paleocoordinates 50.6° S, 48.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Emsian to Emsian (407.6 - 387.7 Ma)
• "Only dip-slope outcrops on the western slope of the valley; no measurable section"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale and conglomerate
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 Paleoecology and stratigraphy of Devonian sediments in the northern Andes, Colombia: paleogeographic implications [Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Chicago]. 1-329 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details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 35979: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 12.01.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Phacopidae indet. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite | |
Inarticulata | |
Strophomenata | |
Leptostrophiidae indet. Caster 1939 | |
Eodevonaria sp. Twenhofel 1914 | |
Devonochonetes sp. Muir-Wood 1962 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Mucrospiriferidae indet. Pitrat 1965 | |
Rhynchonellida indet. Kuhn 1949 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Fenestellidae indet. King 1850 | |
Bivalvia | |
Pterioida indet. Newell 1965 clam |