Where: Colombia (8.0° N, 73.0° W: paleocoordinates 48.0° S, 48.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Rio Chitagá Formation, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)
• Middle Devonian is resting unconformably on basement. Collection is from 180 m above contact. Formation from Pastor-Chacón, Reyes-Abril, Cáceres-Guevara, Sarmiento & Cramer 2013.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. Boinet, C. Babin, J. Broutin, H. Lardeux, D. Pons and P. Racheboeuf. 1986. Les grandes etapes de l'evolution paleozoique du Massif de Santander (Andes de Colombie): signification de la discordance du Devonian moyen. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences de Paris, Serie II 303(8):707-712 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35983: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 12.01.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Lophophorata | |
Tentaculites sp. von Schlotheim 1820 | |
Strophomenata | |
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Mucrospirifer mucronatus Conrad 1841 | |
Tentaculita | |
cf. Lonchidium sp. D'Eichwald 1860 |