Also known as Obispo Fm., Molle Punku, Huerta Maya, and Pantipata, Bolivia
Where: Bolivia (21.0° S, 65.0° W: paleocoordinates 45.3° S, 129.1° W)
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Obispo Formation, Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray shale and siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
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: A. Pribyl and J. Vanek. 1980. Ordovician trilobites of Bolivia. Rozpravy Ceskoslovenske Akademie Ved. Rada Matematickych a Prirodnich Ved. Academia Praha, Prague, Czechoslovakia 90(2):1-90 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 8845: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 01.09.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Endoceras sp. Hall 1847 | |
Pachendoceras sp. Ulrich and Foerste 1936 | |
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Orthis sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Dinorthis sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Camerella sp. Billings 1859 | |
Malacostraca | |
Ceratiocaris sp. M'Coy 1849 | |
Trilobita | |
Thysanopyge sp. Kayser 1898 trilobite | |
Pterobranchia | |
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite |