Molle Punku, Huerta Maya, and Pantipata: Arenig, Bolivia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Archaeostraca - Ceratiocarididae
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Thysanopyge sp. Kayser 1898
Cephalopoda - Ellesmerocerida - Ellesmeroceratidae
Pachendoceras sp. Ulrich and Foerste 1936
Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832
Cephalopoda - Endocerida - Endoceratidae
Endoceras sp. Hall 1847
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Dinorthis sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Orthidae
Orthis sp. Dalman 1828
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Euorthisinidae
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Heterorthidae
Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida - Camerellidae
Camerella sp. Billings 1859
Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851
see common names

Geography
Country:Bolivia
Coordinates: 21.0° South, 65.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.6° South, 166.5° West (Wright 2013)
Geographic resolution:basin
Time
Period: Ordovician
10 m.y. bin: Ordovician 2-3
*Period:Early/Lower Ordovician *Epoch:Early/Lower Arenig
*International age/stage:Early/Lower Arenig
Key time interval: Arenig
Age range of interval: 477.1 - 468 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Obispo
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,red or brown lithified "shale"
Secondary lithology: siltstone
Lithology description: dark gray cone-in-cone concretions in gray shale and siltstone intercalated with gray-brown sandstone
Environment:offshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic 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
Also known as:Obispo Fm., Molle Punku, Huerta Maya, and Pantipata, Bolivia
Database number:8845
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:P. Novack-Gottshall
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-09-01 11:20:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2000-09-01 11:20:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
665.1% 12160A. 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]