Molle Punku, Huerta Maya, and Pantipata (Ordovician of Bolivia)

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

• dark gray cone-in-cone concretions in gray shale and siltstone intercalated with gray-brown sandstone

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

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Endocerida - Endoceratidae
Endoceras sp. Hall 1847
 Ellesmerocerida - Ellesmeroceratidae
Pachendoceras sp. Ulrich and Foerste 1936
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Orthidae
Orthis sp. Dalman 1828
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Dinorthis sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
 Orthida - Euorthisinidae
 Orthida - Heterorthidae
 Pentamerida - Camerellidae
Camerella sp. Billings 1859
Malacostraca
 Archaeostraca - Ceratiocarididae
Ceratiocaris sp. M'Coy 1849
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Thysanopyge sp. Kayser 1898 trilobite
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite