AMNH291, Bed 16, Mameura, Rio Vilcanota section 2: Asselian - Sakmarian, Peru

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821
Stems and rare plates
Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae
Marginifera capaci (d'Orbigny 1842)
Common category
recombined as Kozlowskia capaci
(3 measurements)
Strophomenata - Productida - Echinoconchidae
Juresania hispida Chronic 1949
Rare category
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia buchi (d'Orbigny 1842)
Common category
(3 measurements)
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Elythidae
Phricodothyris guadalupensis (Shumard 1859)
Rare category
n. ssp. peruensis
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Neospirifer condor (d'Orbigny 1842)
Common category
recombined as Gypospirifer condor
(1 measurement)
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita subtilita (Hall 1852)
Common category
n. ssp. peruviana
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia sicuaniensis Chronic 1949
Rare category
(7 measurements)
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Wellerella osagensis (Shumard and Swallow 1858)
Common category
n. ssp. peruviana
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Rhipidomella cora (d'Orbigny 1842)
Abundant category
(30 measurements)
Stenolaemata - Cystoporida - Hexagonellidae
Meekopora cf. prosseri Ullrich 1890
Abundant category
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Omphalotrochidae
Omphalotrochus obtusispira (Shumard 1859)
Rare category
see common names

Geography
Country:Peru State/province:Cusco
Coordinates: 14.4° South, 71.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.5° South, 48.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Cisuralian
Key time interval:Asselian - Sakmarian
Age range of interval:298.90000 - 290.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Copacabana
Local section:2, Mameura Local bed:16
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 96 feet thick.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:black lithified "shale"
Secondary lithology:shelly/skeletal lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Shale, black, fissile, with interbedded thin limestones, one near the middle and one at the base containing silicified brachiopods.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with silica
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,chemical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:41343
Authorizer:D. Bottjer Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-07-13 16:46:04 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-13 16:46:04
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11104. N. D. Newell, J. Chronic, and T.G. Roberts. 1953. Upper Paleozoic of Peru. Geological Society of America Memoir 58:1-276 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/P. Wagner]