Paco Chico, ~40 km west of Potosí: Caradoc, Bolivia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Draboviidae
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Eorhipidomella cardocanalis n. sp.
Havlicek and Branisa 1980
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Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
- Trigonirhynchiidae
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Rostricellula sp.
Ulrich and Cooper 1942
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Geography
| Country: | Bolivia | State/province: | Tomás Frías | County: | Potosi |
| Coordinates: | 19.5° South, 65.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.9° South, 177.2° East (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
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: Formerly called Zapla or Zapla Tillites; PJW: Re-identified as Cancaniri initially, but although that is contemporaneous with the Zapla, it's too young. This probably is San Benito. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | pebbly lithified argillaceous sandstone |
| Lithology description: sandstone and shaley-sandy diamictite | |
| Environment: | foreshore |
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: | 8853 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | P. Novack-Gottshall |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2000-09-01 11:43:11 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-09-01 11:43:11 |
| 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] |