Payandé, El Salitre (Triassic of Colombia)

Where: Tolima, Colombia (4.3° N, 75.1° W: paleocoordinates 8.4° S, 45.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Payandé Formation, Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• detrital limestone, crinoidal limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: O. F. Geyer. 1973. Das präkretazische Mesozoikum von Kolumbien [The Pre-Cretaceous Mesozoic from Colombia]. Geologisches Jahrbuch B 5:1-156 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101065: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.12.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Zygopleuridae
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Monotidae
"Monotis subcircularis" = Monotis (Entomonotis) subcircularis
"Monotis subcircularis" = Monotis (Entomonotis) subcircularis Gabb 1864 scallop
 Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
 Megalodontida - Megalodontidae
Megalodon sp. Sowerby 1827 clam
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Echinoidea
  -
"Cidaris" cf. hausmanni Wissmann 1841 sea urchin
"Cidaris" cf. scrobiculata Braun 1841 sea urchin
Crinoidea
 Isocrinida - Isocrinidae