Arroyo de Las Pulgas-8 (Carboniferous to of Mexico)

Also known as API-8

Where: Oaxaca, Mexico (17.6° N, 97.1° W: paleocoordinates 15.7° S, 50.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ixaltepec Formation, Morrowan to Morrowan (323.2 - 306.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, gray shale

• Dark gray shale, ochre-yellowish when weathered, very fragile. at 230 m above base of column

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. A. Quiroz-Barroso and M. Del Carmen Perrilliat. 1998. Pennsylvanian bivalves from the Ixaltepec formation, Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 72(6):1011-1024 [J. Alroy/C. Simpson/C. Simpson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 44333: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Carl Simpson on 08.09.2004, edited by Pedro Monarrez

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Permophorus cf. oblongus
Permophorus cf. oblongus Meek and Hayden 1872 clam
 Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae
Edmondia ovata
Edmondia ovata Meek and Worthen 1873 clam
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Aviculopecten "sp. B", Aviculopecten cf. basilicus
Aviculopecten "sp. B" M'Coy 1851 scallop
Aviculopecten cf. basilicus Newell 1938 scallop
 Pectinida - Streblochondriidae
Streblopteria sp.
Streblopteria sp. McCoy 1851 scallop
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet.
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Strophomenata
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
Echinaria knighti
Trilobita
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Trilobita indet.
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily