Unknown formation name, Sella, Bolivia (Ordovician of Bolivia)

Where: Bolivia (21.0° S, 65.0° W: paleocoordinates 45.3° S, 129.1° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)

• Unknown formation name

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

• not recorded

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: A. Pribyl and J. Vanek. 1980. Ordovician trilobites of Bolivia. Rozpravy Ceskoslovenske Akademie Ved. Rada Matematickych a Prirodnich Ved. Academia Praha, Prague, Czechoslovakia 90(2):1-90 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8844: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 01.09.2000

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Taxonomic list

• Trilobite taxonomy
unclassified
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Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
Shumardia sp. Billings 1862 trilobite
 Asaphida - Taihungshaniidae
Asaphellina sp. Chalmas and Bergeron 1989 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
"Megalaspidella sp." = Asaphellus, Notopeltis sp., Kayseraspis sp.
"Megalaspidella sp." = Asaphellus Callaway 1877 trilobite
Notopeltis sp. Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite
Kayseraspis sp. Harrington 1938 trilobite