Sample ES1, Bucaramanga (Devonian to of Colombia)

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

• Biofacies 1, "offshore open marine paleoenvironments below wave base"

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 Paleoecology and stratigraphy of Devonian sediments in the northern Andes, Colombia: paleogeographic implications [Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Chicago]. 1-329 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details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

• Barrett (ref. 9602) gives a detailed faunal list for his entire dissertation, generally down to the species level. The individual samples, however, are presented in his fig. 24 in a form that coarsens the taxonomic resolution to the genus level or even higher. It seems that the brachiopods are more likely to be reported to the genus level.
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Phacopidae indet. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
Inarticulata
  -
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
 Strophomenida - Eodevonariidae
Eodevonaria sp. Twenhofel 1914
 Strophomenida - Chonostrophiidae
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
 Orthotetida - Pulsiidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Rhynchonellida -
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Bivalvia
 Autobranchia -
Pterioida indet. Newell 1965 clam