Locality 535, Cerro Japune, Peru (Silurian to of Peru)

Where: Peru (15.2° S, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 47.8° S, 116.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Llandovery to Llandovery (443.4 - 423.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, green, sandy shale

• Heterorthella Community of Boucot (1975), BA 2.
• "more than 150 m of lutite overlain by a sequence of rhythmic gray-green sandy pelite containing Silurian fossils"

Primary reference: G. Laubacher, A. J. Boucot, and J. Gray. 1982. Additions to Silurian stratigraphy, lithofacies, biogeography and paleontology of Bolivia and southern Peru. Journal of Paleontology 56(5):1138-1170 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25082: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 27.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Scolecodonta indet.
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
 Bellerophontida - Plectonotidae
"Plectonotus aff. trilobatus" = Plectonotoides trilobatus
"Plectonotus aff. trilobatus" = Plectonotoides trilobatus Conrad 1839 snail
genus name in quotes
Bivalvia
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"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Eatoniidae
Clarkeia antisiensis
 Rhynchonellida - Leptocoeliidae
"Harringtonina acutplicata" = Anabaia
"Harringtonina acutplicata" = Anabaia
 Orthida - Heterorthidae
Heterorthella freitana
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida -
Strophomenida indet.
Strophomenida indet. Opik 1934
a new genus and species of aseptate strophochonetid
Lophophorata
 Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Tentaculites sp.
Tentaculites sp. von Schlotheim 1820
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Homalonotidae indet.
Homalonotidae indet. Chapman 1890 trilobite