Where: Chayanta, Bolivia (18.8° S, 65.8° W: paleocoordinates 44.3° S, 128.4° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: San Benito Formation, Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

• Unknown Fm. name; possibly the Cancaniri Fm. PJW: Cancaniri is younger. This probably is San Benito given age & area.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, green, yellow sandstone

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: V. Havlicek and L. Branisa. 1980. Ordovician brachiopods of Bolivia: Succession of assemblages, climate control, affinity to Anglo-French and Bohemian provinces. Rozpravy Ceskoslovenske Akademie Ved. Rada Matematickych a Prirodnich Ved. Academia Praha, Prague, Czechoslovakia 90(1):1-54 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8852: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 01.09.2000

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