Upper Pampa Beds, La Paz Province, Bolivia (Silurian to of Bolivia)

Also known as Obere Pampa Schichten

Where: La Paz, Bolivia (15.5° S, 68.0° W: paleocoordinates 54.9° S, 109.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Pampa Formation, Ludlow to Ludlow (427.4 - 419.2 Ma)

• Wolfart gives age as Silurian. Fossils are not found near what is thought to be the Silurian/Devonian boundary, so it is hard to locate boundary precisely within the Pampa Beds. Overlying beds are Catavi; the oldest of these are thought to be Pridolian (see PBDB coll. 25584).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale and sandstone

• "eine Folge von Schiefertonen mit duennen Sandsteinbaenken

Primary reference: R. Wolfart. 1968. Die Trilobiten aus dem Devon Boliviens und ihre Bedeutung fuer Stratigraphie und Tiergeographie. Beihefte zum Geologischen Jahrbuch 74:5-201 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37051: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 26.02.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Focus of monograph is trilobites. Other taxa sometimes mentioned as well.
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
Pleurodictyum sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
 Phacopida - Calmoniidae