Where: Brazil (25.1° S, 50.2° W: paleocoordinates 84.7° S, 102.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sao Domingos Member (Ponta Grossa Formation), Eifelian to Eifelian (393.3 - 372.2 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)..." Melo seems to restrict this member to Givetian-Frasnian in age.

• 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 37073: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 02.03.2004

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