AMNH300, Bed 5, Section 8, Río Apurimac, SE of Pasaje (Carboniferous of Peru)

Where: Peru (13.5° S, 73.2° W: paleocoordinates 32.0° S, 54.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tarma Group, Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• 385 feet thick, "Middle Pennsylvanian"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, shelly/skeletal, red, white limestone

• Limestone, pinkish to cream-coloured, fine-grained.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collection methods: bulk, chemical,

Primary reference: N. D. Newell, J. Chronic, and T.G. Roberts. 1953. Upper Paleozoic of Peru. Geological Society of America Memoir 58:1-276 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41363: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Hyphasmoporidae
Streblotrypa sp.
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestrellina nodograciosa n. sp., Fenestrellina apurimacana n. sp., Fenestrellina salebrosa n. sp.
Fenestrellina nodograciosa n. sp. Chronic 1949
Fenestrellina apurimacana n. sp. Chronic 1949
Fenestrellina salebrosa n. sp. Chronic 1949