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
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 | |
? Brongniartella sp. Reed 1918 trilobite | |
Lingulata | |
Schizocrania sp. Hall and Whitfield 1875 | |
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797 | |
Bistramia sp. Hoek 1912 | |
Strophomenata | |
Kjaerina sp. Bancroft 1929 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Dinorthis sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Nucula" sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam |