Changolla, railway on the Cochabamba - Oruro Railway: Caradoc, Bolivia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Plaesiomyidae
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Dinorthis flabellulum
(Sowerby and Murchison 1839)
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Draboviidae
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Geography
| Country: | Bolivia | State/province: | Capinota | County: | Cochabamba |
| Coordinates: | 17.8° South, 66.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.7° South, 179.3° East (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late Ordovician |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 4-5 | ||
| *Period: | Late/Upper Ordovician | *Epoch: | Caradoc |
| Key time interval: | Caradoc | ||
| Age range of interval: | 458.2 - 449.5 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | San Benito | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Fm. known by both names (Cancaniri and Zapla). PJW: Was tentatively Cancaniri; however, that unit is younger. This probably is San Benito given age & area. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | pebbly lithified argillaceous sandstone |
| Lithology description: sandstone and shaley-sandy diamictite without bedding (tillite) | |
| Environment: | shoreface |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | 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
| Database number: | 8851 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | P. Novack-Gottshall |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2000-09-01 11:32:00 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-09-01 11:32:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |