Caima Quarry 2 (Carboniferous of Brazil)

Where: Para, Brazil (4.3° S, 56.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° S, 33.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Itaituba Formation, Morrowan (323.2 - 318.6 Ma)

• 4 horizons in the 17 m thick lower part of the Itaituba Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone and lithified lime mudstone

• thin- to medium-bedded skeletal packstone and wackestone interbedded with calcareous mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: Z. Q. Chen, J. I. Tazawa, G. R. Shi and N. S. Matsuda. 2004. Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous) brachiopods from the Itaituba Formation of the Amazon Basin, Brazil. Alcheringa 28(2):441-468 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52894: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Leigh Fall on 25.08.2005, edited by Uta Merkel

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Productidae
Buxtonioides itaitubensis n. sp. Chen et al. 2004
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Amazonoproductus amazonensis n. gen. n. sp. Chen et al. 2004
Linoproductus derbyi Mendes 1959
Linoproductus caima n. sp. Chen et al. 2004
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Cavusgnathidae
 Ozarkodinida - Idiognathodontidae
Conodontophorida
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Declinognathodus noduliferus Ellison and Graves 1941
Spelling in paper is Declinognathus noduliferus, which is a typo for Declinognathodus noduliferus. [entered as Declinognathus noduliferus]