Where: Apurimac, Peru (13.6° S, 72.9° W: paleocoordinates 27.9° S, 49.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Copacabana Group, Asselian to Asselian (298.9 - 290.1 Ma)
• Bed 15 in total is 860 feet thick, fossils at 380, 530, 765, and 820 ft above base.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone and lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original calcite, replaced with silica
Collection methods: bulk, chemical,
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 41354: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Rhynchonellata | |
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