Unknown formation name, Santiago, Bolivia (Ordovician of Bolivia)

Where: Bolivia (18.0° S, 65.0° W: paleocoordinates 45.4° S, 128.5° W)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Caradoc (460.9 - 449.5 Ma)

• Unknown formation name; probably either the Santiago or neighboring lower Trigoloma Fm.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

• none recorded

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 8848: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 01.09.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
? Brongniartella sp. Reed 1918 trilobite
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Trematidae
Schizocrania sp. Hall and Whitfield 1875
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797
 Lingulida -
Bistramia sp. Hoek 1912
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Kjaerina sp. Bancroft 1929
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Dinorthis sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
"Nucula" sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam