Where: Merida, Venezuela (8.0° N, 71.3° W: paleocoordinates 5.5° S, 34.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Palmarito Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)
• Large (ca. 8 cubic meter) exotic block sampled for multiple blocks. Stratigraphic position unknown. Palmarito Fm contains Perrinites hilli and Parafusulina of Kungurian age.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: sand shoal; shelly/skeletal, gray, silty packstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original calcite, replaced with silica
Collection methods: bulk, chemical, mechanical,
• Etching only recovered a few fossils because of poor silicification. Cut slabs were also examined.
Primary reference: P.R. Hoover. 1981. Paleontology, Taphonomy, and Paleoecology of the Palmarito Formation (Permian of Venezuela). Bulletins of American Paleontology 80(313):1-138 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 41509: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Textulariida indet. Delage and Hérouard 1896 | |
Globivalvulina sp. Schubert 1921 | |
Pachyphloia sp. Lange 1925 | |
Cephalopoda | |
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Gastropoda | |
Palaeozygopleura sp. Horný 1955 snail | |
Apachella sp. Winters 1956 snail | |
"Yunnania" sp. Mansuy 1912 snail | |
"Bellerophon (? Pharkidonotus) sp." = Pharkidonotus
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"Straparollus (Euomphalus) sp." = Euomphalus
"Straparollus (Euomphalus) sp." = Euomphalus Sowerby 1814 snail | |
Orthonema sp. Meek and Worthen 1862 snail
Taosia sp. Girty 1939 snail | |
"Naticopsis cf. oblatus" = Naticopsis permica
"Naticopsis cf. oblatus" = Naticopsis permica Netchaev 1894 snail | |
Strophomenata | |
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