AMNH297, Bed 13a, Cerro Ampáy section 7, Abancáy: Asselian - Sakmarian, Peru

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia meridionalis Chronic 1949
Common category
(13 measurements)
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Wellerella bidentata (Girty 1908)
Rare category
n. ssp. parva (1 measurement)
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Dielasma rotundum n. sp. Chronic 1949
Rare category
(2 measurements)
Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae
Dictyoclostus boliviensis (d'Orbigny 1842)
Common category
recombined as Alpavlia boliviensis
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia buchi (d'Orbigny 1842)
Rare category
Stenolaemata - Cystoporida - Goniocladiidae
Goniocladia peruviana Chronic 1949
Rare category
see common names

Geography
Country:Peru State/province:Apurimac
Coordinates: 13.6° South, 72.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.9° South, 49.9° 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:7, Cerro Ampáy Local bed:13a
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Bed 13 in total is 950 feet, fossils near base and 95 ft above base.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal,gray lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Limestone, gray.
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:41352
Authorizer:D. Bottjer Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-07-13 16:46:37 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-13 16:46:37
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]