Quebrada La Falla, Tributaria a Quebrada Zorritas, Sierra de Almieda (Devonian to of Chile)

Also known as Zorritas Fm., Sierra de Almieda, Chile

Where: Salar de Atacama, Chile (24.6° S, 68.6° W: paleocoordinates 64.3° S, 103.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Zorritas Formation, Emsian to Emsian (407.6 - 382.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified sandstone

• Quartzitic sandstone with occasional polymictic clasts

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: A. J. Boucot, H. Bahlburg, C. Breitkreuz, P. E. Isaacson, H. Niemeyer and F. Urzua. 1995. Devonian brachiopods from northern Chile. Journal of Paleontology 69(2):257-263 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3643: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 06.08.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Brachiopod systematics
Rhynchonellata
  - Tropidoleptidae
Tropidoleptus cf. carinatus Conrad 1839
"cf. T. carinatus" - originally entered as "Tropidoleptus cf. T. carinatus"
 Rhynchonellida - Leptocoeliidae
Australocoelia cf. palmata
"cf. A. palmata" - originally entered as "Australocoelia cf. A. palmata"