Where: Venezuela (10.5° N, 72.5° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° S, 44.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Cano Grande Formation (Rio Cachira Group), Emsian to Emsian (407.6 - 387.7 Ma)
• This part of section interpreted as late Emsian to early Eifelian.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous mudstone
Collection methods: Abundances are given by authors.
Primary reference: T. M. Sanchez and J. L. Benedetto. 1983. Paleoecologia, comunidades bentonicas y sucesion paleoambiental en el Grupo Rio Cachiri, Devonico, Sierra de Perija, Venezueal. Ameghiniana 20(3-4):163-198 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35895: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 08.01.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Sedentaria | |
? Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Retziidae indet. Waagen 1883 | |
Kozlowskiellina sp. Boucot 1958 | |
Mucrospirifer sp. Grabau 1931 | |
Acrospirifer sp. Wedekind 1926 | |
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860 | |
Cyrtina sp. Davidson 1858 | |
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Strophomenata | |
Eodevonaria sp. Twenhofel 1914 | |
Leptostrophia sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Cymostrophia sp. Caster 1939 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Bivalvia | |
Pterinopectinidae indet. Newell 1938 scallop | |
Cypricardinia sp. Hall 1860 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Platyostoma sp. Conrad 1842 snail | |
Trilobita | |
Phacopida indet. Salter 1864 trilobite | |
Homalonotidae indet. Chapman 1890 trilobite | |
Lichidae indet. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Anthozoa | |
Pleurodictyum sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral |