Unknown fm., Southern Macarena mountains, Columbia ( of Colombia)

Where: Colombia (2.0° N, 74.0° W: paleocoordinates 2.0° N, 74.0° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)

• Unknown fm. name

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, silty shale

• gray argillite, silty and micaceous

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: H. J. Harrington and M. Kay. 1951. Cambrian and Ordovician faunas of Eastern Colombia. Journal of Paleontology 25(5):655-668 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8864: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 02.09.2000

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Eoorthidae
? Apheoorthis sp.
? Apheoorthis sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Trilobita
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Raphiophorus sp.
Raphiophorus sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite
 Asaphida - Nileidae
Symphysurus sp.
Symphysurus sp. Goldfuss 1843 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
"Basiliella sp." = Basilicus (Basiliella), "Megalaspis sp." = Megistaspis
"Basiliella sp." = Basilicus (Basiliella) Kobayashi 1934 trilobite
"Megalaspis sp." = Megistaspis Jaanusson 1956 trilobite
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
Tropidopyge sp.
Tropidopyge sp. Harrington and Kay 1951 trilobite