Where: Chile (24.5° S, 69.5° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 48.8° S, 117.0° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Zorritas Formation, Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• fossils collected from unnamed upper member of the Zorritas Formation

•collection is a composite of 2 sections near the towns of Zorritas and El Salto

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithified sandstone and lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Reposited in the UNSM

Primary reference: P. E. Isaacson and J. T. Dutro. 1999. Lower Carboniferous brachiopods from Sierra de Almeida, northern Chile. Journal of Paleontology 73(4):625-633 [N. Heim/N. Heim/N. Heim]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34753: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 22.09.2003, edited by Pete Wagner

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