Also known as Unknown early Tremadoc fm., Taraya, Bolivia

Where: Bolivia (22.0° S, 65.3° W: paleocoordinates 46.1° S, 127.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Taraya Formation, Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)

• Unknown fm name. PJW: Suárez-Soruco (2000) notes that this is now the Taraya Formation. This overlies the Sama. No overlying rock unit is reported.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary, pyritic, black, gray shale

Size class: macrofossils

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: R. Suarez Soruco. 1976. El sistema ordovicico en Bolivia. Revista Tecnica YPF Bolivia 5(2):111-123 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8802: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 29.08.2000, edited by Pete Wagner

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