Sella: Arenig, Bolivia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ellesmerocerida - Bathmoceratidae
Eothinoceras sp. Ulrich et al. 1944
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Maclurites sp. Le Sueur 1818
Bivalvia - Lipanellidae
Cosmogoniophorina sp. Isberg 1934
Havlicek and Branisa 1980
original and current combination Cosmogoniophorina
Bivalvia - Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
Ctenodonta sp. Salter 1852
Havlicek and Branisa 1980
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Orthidium cf. gemmiculum (Billings 1865)
    = Glyptorthis imbrex n. sp. Havlicek and Branisa 1980
Havlicek and Branisa 1980
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plectorthidae
Orthis cf. swanensis
    = Desmorthis segnis n. sp. Havlicek and Branisa 1980
Havlicek and Branisa 1980
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Lonchodomas sp. Angelin 1854
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Trinucleus sp. Murchison 1839
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Hoekaspis sp. Kobayashi 1937
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Synhomalonotus sp. Pompeckj 1898
synonym of Neseuretus
Eocrinoidea - Lingulocystidae
Lingulocystis boliviensis n. sp. Sprinkle 1973
Sprinkle 1973
Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851
see common names

Geography
Country:Bolivia State/province:Tarija
Coordinates: 21.4° South, 64.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.1° South, 129.7° West
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 2
*Period:Early/Lower Ordovician *Epoch:Early/Lower Arenig
*International age/stage:Early/Lower Arenig
Key time interval:Arenig Graptolite zone: Baltograptus minutus
Age range of interval:478.60000 - 466.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sella
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:green,yellow lithified sandy,calcareous "shale"
Secondary lithology: "limestone"
Lithology description: yellow-green limy shale and gray sandy limestone
Environment:deep subtidal shelf
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: JA: marked by Novack-Gottshall without explanation as omitting some genera, some macrofossils, some microfossils, and species names, but apparently complete
Metadata
Database number:9107
Authorizer:A. Miller, P. Wagner Enterer:P. Novack-Gottshall, P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-09-22 12:52:54 Last modified:2018-10-27 20:26:49
Access level:the public Released:2000-09-22 12:52:54
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

625. L. Branisa. 1965. Los fosiles guias de Bolivia: I. Paleozoico. Boletin de Servicio Geologico de Bolivia. La Paz, Bolivia 6:1-282 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

644 V. Havlicek and L. Branisa. 1980. Ordovician brachiopods of Bolivia: Succession of assemblages, climate control, affinity to Anglo-French and Bohemian provinces. Rozpravy Ceskoslovenske Akademie Ved. Rada Matematickych a Prirodnich Ved. Academia Praha, Prague, Czechoslovakia 90(1):1-54 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]
67232 J. Sprinkle. 1973. New occurrence of the Ordovician eocrinoid Lingulocystis from Bolivia. Journal of Paleontology 47(6):1113-1128 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]