AMNH259, Bed 6, Quebrada Quishuarani, Muñani (Carboniferous of Peru)

Where: Puno, Peru (14.8° S, 70.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° S, 52.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: N. D. Newell, J. Chronic, and T.G. Roberts. 1953. Upper Paleozoic of Peru. Geological Society of America Memoir 58:1-276 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41339: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Linoproductus cora d'Orbigny 1842
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita sp. Brown 1849
 Spiriferinida - Reticulariinidae
? Reticulariina cf. spinosa Norwood and Pratten 1855
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Trepospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail