Where: Peru (7.0° S, 74.0° W: paleocoordinates 48.5° S, 107.4° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Contaya Formation, Late/Upper Llanvirn (463.5 - 460.9 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, argillaceous shale
Collection methods: JA: marked by Novack-Gottshall without explanation as omitting some genera, some macrofossils, some microfossils, and species names, but apparently complete
Primary reference: C. P. Hughes, R. B. Rickards, and A. Williams. 1980. The Ordovician fauna from the Contaya Formation of eastern Peru. Geological Magazine 117(1):1-21 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 8800: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 29.08.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Trilobita | |
"Ogygiocarella sp." = Ogygiocaris
"Ogygiocarella sp." = Ogygiocaris Angelin 1854 trilobite | |
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Anebolithus sp. Huges and Wright 1970 trilobite | |
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Porterfieldia sp. Cooper 1953 trilobite | |
| Ostracoda | |
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? Cryptophyllus sp. Levinson 1951 ostracod | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
| Lingulata | |
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Obolus sp. Eichwald 1829
Lingulella sp. Salter 1866 | |
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Pseudolingula sp. Mickwitz 1909 | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Sinuites sp. Koken 1896 snail | |
| Pterobranchia | |
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Glossograptus sp. graptolite | |
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Glyptograptus sp. Lapworth 1873 graptolite | |
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Amplexograptus sp. graptolite | |
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Pseudoclimacograptus sp. climacograptid | |
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Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite | |
| Hexactinellida | |
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? Hyalostelia sp. glass sponge | |