PBDB Collection

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

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
Athyridida - Athyrididae	Cleiothyridina orbicularis Cleiothyridina orbicularis McChesney 1859
Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae	Neospirifer cameratus Neospirifer cameratus Morton 1836
Spiriferida - Spiriferidae	Spiriferidae indet., ? Anthracospirifer sp., Anthracospirifer oliveirai Spiriferidae indet. King 1846 ? Anthracospirifer sp. Lane 1963 Anthracospirifer oliveirai Mendes 1956
Strophomenata
Productida - Linoproductidae	Linoproductus derbyi, Linoproductus caima n. sp., Amazonoproductus amazonensis n. gen. n. sp. Linoproductus derbyi Mendes 1959 Linoproductus caima n. sp. Chen et al. 2004 Amazonoproductus amazonensis n. gen. n. sp. Chen et al. 2004
Productida - Productidae	Buxtonioides itaitubensis n. sp. Buxtonioides itaitubensis n. sp. Chen et al. 2004
Conodonta
Ozarkodinida - Cavusgnathidae	Adetognathus lautus Adetognathus lautus conodont
Ozarkodinida - Idiognathodontidae	Streptognathodus oppletus, Streptognathodus parvus, Idiognathodus sinuosus, Idiognathodus sinuatus, Idiognathodus klapperi, Idiognathodus incurvus, Neognathodus medadultimus Streptognathodus oppletus conodont Streptognathodus parvus conodont Idiognathodus sinuosus conodont Idiognathodus sinuatus conodont Idiognathodus klapperi conodont Idiognathodus incurvus conodont Neognathodus medadultimus conodont
Conodontophorida
-	Declinognathodus noduliferus Declinognathodus noduliferus Ellison and Graves 1941 Spelling in paper is Declinognathus noduliferus, which is a typo for Declinognathodus noduliferus. [entered as Declinognathus noduliferus]