Also known as Capara Fm., Quebrada Cordero, Rio Capara, and Quebrada Liran (Merida Andes regio
Where: Merida Andes, Venezuela (8.0° N, 71.0° W: paleocoordinates 58.1° S, 89.4° W)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Caparo Formation, Costonian to Costonian (458.4 - 455.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, gray, sandy siltstone and limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: H. C. Arnold and W. R. Smith. 1964. Paleozoic Rocks of Merida Andes, Venezuela. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 48(1):70-84 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 8858: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 01.09.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Flexicalymene sp. Shirley 1936 trilobite | |
Triarthrus sp. Green 1832 trilobite
Porterfieldia sp. Cooper 1953 trilobite | |
Cryptolithus sp. Green 1832 trilobite
Reuscholithus sp. Bancroft 1929 trilobite
? Salterolithus sp. Bancroft 1929 trilobite
Onnia sp. Bancroft 1933 trilobite
Marrolithus sp. Bancroft 1929 trilobite | |
Bivalvia | |
Allonychia sp. Ulrich 1895 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Orthambonites sp. Pander 1830 | |
Glyptorthis sp. Foerste 1914 | |
Ptychopleurella sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931 | |
Platystrophia sp. King 1850 | |
? Plectorthis sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Heterorthina sp. Bancroft 1928 | |
Pionodema sp. Foerste 1912 | |
? Rostricellula sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1942 | |
Strophomenata | |
Bicuspina sp. Havlicek 1950 | |
Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830 | |
Sowerbyella sp. Jones 1928 | |
Titanambonites sp. Cooper 1956 | |
Lingulata | |
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Eridotrypa sp. Ulrich 1893 | |
Pterobranchia | |
Acanthograptus sp. graptolite | |
Amphigraptus sp. graptolite | |
Glyptograptus sp. graptolite | |
Corynoides sp. Nicholson 1867 graptolite
Orthograptus sp. Lapworth 1873 graptolite | |
Climacograptus sp. Hall 1865 climacograptid | |
Nemagraptus sp. graptolite
Dicranograptus sp. Hall 1865 graptolite | |
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite | |
Cryptograptus sp. graptolite | |
Thamnograptus sp. graptolite | |
Anthozoa | |
Streptelasma sp. Hall 1847 horn coral |