Where: Bolivia (20.0° S, 66.0° W: paleocoordinates 43.7° S, 128.3° W)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Llanvirn (463.5 - 460.9 Ma)
• Unnamed formation; various stratigraphic studies have stated it as Arenig through Late Llanvirn, but Benedetto and Sanchez (1996) consider it co-eval with the Peruvian Contaya Fm that is Late Llanvirn
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: foreshore; lithified, 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: A. Pribyl and J. Vanek. 1980. Ordovician trilobites of Bolivia. Rozpravy Ceskoslovenske Akademie Ved. Rada Matematickych a Prirodnich Ved. Academia Praha, Prague, Czechoslovakia 90(2):1-90 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 9105: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 22.09.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Incaia sp. Whittard 1955 trilobite | |
Colpocoryphe sp. Novak and Perner 1918 trilobite | |
Ostracoda | |
Zygobolboides sp. ostracod | |
Rhynchonellata | |