Where: Amapa, Brazil (0.5° S, 52.0° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 59.8° S, 34.2° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Maecuru Formation, Emsian to Emsian (410.6 - 387.9 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and bioturbated siltstone
Primary reference: J. H. G. Melo. 1988. The Malvinokaffric realm in the Devonian of Brazil. N. J. McMillan, A. F. Embry, and D. J. Glass, eds. Devonian of the World, Volume I. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists. Calgary, Alberta, Canada 669-703 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 37136: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 03.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Tentaculita | |
Tentaculites sp. von Schlotheim 1820 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
"Ptychopteria (Actinopteria) sp." = Actinopteria
"Ptychopteria (Actinopteria) sp." = Actinopteria Hall 1884 oyster | |
Rhynchonellata | |
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? Acrospirifer sp. Wedekind 1926 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Schuchertella" sp. Girty 1904 | |
"Chonetacea "gen.nov. A"" = Chonetoidea
"Chonetacea "gen.nov. A"" = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862 | |
Protoleptostrophia sp. Caster 1939 | |
Artiopoda | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite |