Where: Amazonas, Brazil (3.0° S, 59.0° W: paleocoordinates 65.1° S, 39.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Erere Formation, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)
• Collection not explicitly said to come from Erere Fmn., but this seems rather clear from stratigraphic and geographic context. See lithology description
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; micaceous siltstone and shale
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 37178: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 03.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Metacryphaeus sp. Reed 1907 trilobite | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Schuchertella" sp. Girty 1904 | |
Lingulata | |
? Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797 | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily |