Tarija, Iscayachi Formation: Tremadoc, Bolivia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Giraldiellidae
Kvania lariensis Benedetto 2007
see common names

Geography
Country:Bolivia
Coordinates: 21.5° South, 64.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.8° South, 161.2° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
10 m.y. bin: Cambrian-Ordovician
Key time interval: Tremadoc Trilobite zone:  Jujuyaspis keideli
Age range of interval: 485 - 477.7 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Iscayachi
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Lower Tremadoc
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Lithology description: no information given
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:74350
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-08-03 05:25:01 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-08-03 05:25:01
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

24964. J. L. Benedetto. 2007. New Upper Cambrian-Tremadoc rhynchonelliformean brachiopods from northwestern Argentina: evolutionary trends and early diversification of plectorthoideans in the Andean Gondwana. Journal of Paleontology 81(2):261-285 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]