Also known as Lager der Ph. lacunafera

Where: La Paz, Bolivia (15.5° S, 68.0° W: paleocoordinates 63.8° S, 83.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Belen Member (Belen Formation), Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• Age call is based on Isaacson and Sablock (1987) (PBDB ref. 9680). Nested within the lacunafera bed is the Metacryphaeus giganteus bed, and within this the Odontochile branisi bed.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and shale

Primary reference: R. Wolfart. 1968. Die Trilobiten aus dem Devon Boliviens und ihre Bedeutung fuer Stratigraphie und Tiergeographie. Beihefte zum Geologischen Jahrbuch 74:5-201 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37054: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 26.02.2004

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