Where: Brazil (24.3° S, 49.7° W: paleocoordinates 77.7° S, 128.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Jaguariaiva Member (Ponta Grossa Formation), Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)
• Members of Ponta Grossa Fm., from bottom to top, are Jaguariaiva, Tibagi, and Sao Domingos.
•Melo (ref. 9944) restricts the name "Ponta Grossa" to "the lower, richly fossiliferous transgressive shaly section of the Devonian in the Apucarana Sub-basin, the name Jaguariaiva being regarded as a junior synonym...The Ponta Grossa and Sao Domingos shales are interpreted to be units of equal lithostratigraphic rank...The Tibaji "Sandstone" (in fact more silty than sandy) should be kept as a subordinate unit of the Ponta Grossa shale due to its restricted distribution...The Ponta Grossa Shale is well known for its abundant marine invertebrate fauna of Emsian/early Eifelian age, first described by Clarke (1913)..." Emsian age call for this part of formation is from Morsch.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
Primary reference: S. M. Morsch. 1986. Bivalves (Mollusca) na Formacao Ponta Grossa (Bacia do Parana - Devoniano). Revisao Sistematica. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 58(3):403-431 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 37070: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 02.03.2004
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Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
? Palaeoneilo rhysa clam | |
"Solemya (? Janeia) brasiliensis" = Solemya
"Solemya (? Janeia) brasiliensis" = Solemya Awning Clam | |
"Prothyris (Paraprothyris) knodi" = Paraprothyris
"Prothyris (Paraprothyris) knodi" = Paraprothyris clam | |