Where: Ayopaya, Bolivia (17.0° S, 67.0° W: paleocoordinates 47.9° S, 123.9° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Independencia Formation, Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: JA: marked by Novack-Gottshall without explanation as omitting some genera, some macrofossils, some microfossils, and species names, but apparently complete

Primary reference: R. Suarez Soruco. 1976. El sistema ordovicico en Bolivia. Revista Tecnica YPF Bolivia 5(2):111-123 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8842: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 01.09.2000, edited by Pete Wagner

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