Where: Merida, Venezuela (8.0° N, 71.3° W: paleocoordinates 5.5° S, 34.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Palmarito Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)
• Paving stone, could not be traced to outcrop; 1 m square and 25 cm thick. Palmarito Fm contains Perrinites hilli and Parafusulina of Kungurian age.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, silty packstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original calcite
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,
• 1 m square and 25 cm thick. Fossils identified from cut slabs.
Primary reference: P.R. Hoover. 1981. Paleontology, Taphonomy, and Paleoecology of the Palmarito Formation (Permian of Venezuela). Bulletins of American Paleontology 80(313):1-138 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 41513: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Lophophyllidium sp. Grabau 1928 horn coral | |
Strophomenata | |
"Stauromata esoterica n. gen. n. sp." = Dyoros esoterica
"Stauromata esoterica n. gen. n. sp." = Dyoros esoterica Hoover 1981 | |
Meekella skenoides Girty 1908 | |
Rugatia occidentalis Newberry 1861
Echinauris cf. liumbona Cooper and Grant 1975
"Kutorginella cf. umbonata" = Retaria umbonata Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Composita cf. pilula Cooper and Grant 1976 | |
Neophricadothyris cf. crassibecca Cooper and Grant 1976 | |
Neospirifer venezuelensis Gerth 1931 | |
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Stenolaemata | |
"Fenestrida indet." = Fenestelloidea
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Crinoidea | |
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