Where: Apurimac, Peru (13.6° S, 73.1° W: paleocoordinates 27.7° S, 50.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Copacabana Group, Asselian to Asselian (298.9 - 290.1 Ma)
• 125 feet thick.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Collection methods: bulk, chemical,
Primary reference: N. D. Newell, J. Chronic, and T.G. Roberts. 1953. Upper Paleozoic of Peru. Geological Society of America Memoir 58:1-276 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 41358: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Streblochondria sp. Newell 1938 scallop | |
"Aviculopecten crassispinosus" = Cassianoides crassispinosus
"Aviculopecten crassispinosus" = Cassianoides crassispinosus Chronic 1949 scallop | |
Strophomenata | |
Derbyia buchi d'Orbigny 1842 | |
Juresania hispida Chronic 1949 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
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Punctospirifer adstrictus n. sp.
Punctospirifer adstrictus n. sp. Chronic 1949 | |
Reticulariina fruticosa n. sp.
Reticulariina fruticosa n. sp. Chronic 1949 | |
Hustedia meridionalis Chronic 1949 | |
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Dielasma scitulum Chronic 1949 | |
Stenolaemata | |
"Silvaseptopora incaica n. gen." = Septopora incaica
"Silvaseptopora incaica n. gen." = Septopora incaica Chronic 1949 | |
Crinoidea | |
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