Cerro Chakeri, Puntata (Ordovician of Bolivia)

Where: Bolivia (17.5° S, 66.8° W: paleocoordinates 44.8° S, 126.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Anzaldo Formation (Cochabamba Group), Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Anzaldo Fm, which overlies the Capinota Fm, and is overlain by the San Benito Fm, all of the Cochabamba Gp. AGE: Early Caradocian in text, although it is acknowledged that Rodrigo de Walker & M. Toro (pers. comm.) argue for a Llanvirnian-Llandeilian age based on trilobites. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Fro unknown position within this section.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, medium sandstone

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Fine to coarse sandstones. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Reposited in the MNHN

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Not stated, but presumably Emig & Herrera. REPOSITORY: Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris and Museo de la Universidad de Zaragoza.

Primary reference: C. C. Emig and Z. Herrera. 2006. Dignomia munsterii (Brachiopoda, Lingulata) from the Ordovician of Bolivia, with redescription of the genus. Geodiversitas 28(2):227-237 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90478: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.08.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to taxon described in text. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identification.
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Huemacaspis bistrami Hoek 1912 trilobite
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Dignomia munsterii d’Orbigny 1842
Pteraspidomorpha
 Arandaspida - Arandaspididae
Sacabambaspis janvieri Gagnier et al. 1986