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. Devonian consists of three members; collection is from the upper one. Formation from Pastor-Chacón, Reyes-Abril, Cáceres-Guevara, Sarmiento & Cramer 2013.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; ferruginous, ooidal sandstone and 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 35982: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 12.01.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Strophomenata | |
? Devonochonetes sp. Muir-Wood 1962 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
""Camarotoechia" cf. sappho" = Sapphicorhynchus sappho
""Camarotoechia" cf. sappho" = Sapphicorhynchus sappho Hall 1860 | |
Bivalvia | |
Panenka sp. Barrande 1881 clam | |
Orthonota undulata Conrad 1841 clam | |
Paracyclas rugosa clam | |
Geminospora lemurata Balme 1962 | |
Raistrickia | |
Raistrickia sp. Potonié and Kremp 1954 | |
Platyphyllum | |
"Platyphyllum cf. williamsonii" = Flabellofolium
"Platyphyllum cf. williamsonii" = Flabellofolium | |
Retusotriletes | |
Retusotriletes sp. Naumova 1953 | |
Taeniocrada | |
Drepanophycus spinaeformis | |
Drepanophycus spinaeformis Goeppert 1852 | |
Psilophytopsida | |
Protolepidodendron | |
Protolepidodendron sp. Krejci 1880 | |
Acanthotriletes | |
Cirratriradites | |
Cirratriradites sp. Wilson and Coe 1940 | |
Pteridopsida | |
Grandispora | |
Grandispora sp. Hoffmeister 1955 |