Sica Sica Fmn., La Paz Province, Bolivia (Devonian of Bolivia)

Also known as Dipleura dekayi boliviensis Lager

Where: La Paz, Bolivia (15.5° S, 68.0° W: paleocoordinates 65.5° S, 79.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Sica Sica Formation, Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• Age call is based on Isaacson and Sablock (1987) (PBDB ref. 9680).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and shale

Primary reference: R. Wolfart. 1968. Die Trilobiten aus dem Devon Boliviens und ihre Bedeutung fuer Stratigraphie und Tiergeographie. Beihefte zum Geologischen Jahrbuch 74:5-201 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37056: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 26.02.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Focus of monograph is trilobites. Other taxa sometimes mentioned as well.
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860
 Spiriferida -
Cephalopoda
 Orthoceratoidea -
Bivalvia
  -
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Trimerus (Dipleura) dekayi Green 1832 trilobite
subsp. boliviensis
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Phacops salteri trilobite
 Phacopida - Calmoniidae
Metacryphaeus venustus n. sp. trilobite
Metacryphaeus tuberculatus Kozlowski 1923 trilobite
Calmonia curvioculata n. sp. trilobite
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
Pleurodictyum sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral