Ticara Creek C4 (Ordovician of Peru)
Where: Peru (15.3° S, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 44.5° S, 120.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Calapuja Formation, Burrellian (456.6 - 452.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
• They actually describe only the beds *under* the fossils! "The fossiliferous beds analysed in detail (Fig. 2) represent a complete regressive sequence, starting with massive dark siliceous mudstones with abundant linguloid brachiopods and trinucleid trilobites, representative of quiet and relatively deep environments. They are overlain by mid- to high-energy shallow marine sandstones and shales with common hummocky cross-stratification, then by sandstones with parallel lamination, debris flow and microconglomeratic lenses, ending with massive quartzites (Q2) with megaripples and trough cross-stratification changing towards the top to Skolithos dominated sandstones."
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: E. Villas, J. Colmenar, and J. C. GutiƩrrez-Marco. 2015. Late Ordovician brachiopods from Peru and their palaeobiogeographical relationships. Palaeontology 52 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 167135: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 07.03.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Bivalves present.
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Bivalvia | |
Modiolopsis concentrica Hall and Whitfield 1875 clam |