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
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
Lingulata | |
Dignomia munsterii d’Orbigny 1842 | |
Trilobita | |
Huemacaspis bistrami Hoek 1912 trilobite | |
Pteraspidomorpha | |
Sacabambaspis janvieri Gagnier et al. 1986 |