Where: Brazil (4.0° S, 57.0° W: paleocoordinates 62.9° S, 33.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Protosalvinia zone, Curiri Member (Curua Formation), Early/Lower Famennian (376.1 - 370.6 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: gray shale and micaceous, gray siltstone
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: core, mechanical,
Primary reference: K. J. Niklas, T. L. Phillips, and A. V. Carozzi. 1976. Morphology and paleoecology of Protosalvinia from the Upper Devonian (Famennian) of the Middle Amazon Basin of Brazil. Palaeontographica Abteilung B 155:1-30 [W. Stein/N. Smith/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 23271: authorized by Bill Stein, entered by Nicole Smith on 11.07.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Geminospora lemurata Balme 1962 | |
Stenozonotriletes | |
Retusotriletes | |
Cyclogranisporites | |
Protosalvinia | |
Protosalvinia bilobata | |
Protosalvinia bilobata Clarke 1885 | |
Emphanisporites | |
Emphanisporites rotatus Macgregor 1973 | |
Apiculatisporis | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Samarisporites triangulatus | |
Samarisporites triangulatus Allen 1965 | |
Grandispora | |