Where: Merida, Venezuela (8.0° N, 71.3° W: paleocoordinates 5.5° S, 34.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Palmarito Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• A block of about 1 cubic m slipped into the streambed formed the actual site of collection. Fusulinids and ammonoids (Perrinites hilli) suggest that locality 4 (and underlying localities 1 and 2) are "late Leonardian" (Kungurian) in age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray siltstone and lithified, silty limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: permineralized, replaced with calcite

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

• Fossils removed by hand from the weathered rock over an area of about 1 sq m, through a stratigraphic thickness of 0.5 m. Cleaned using S.S. White Airbrasive and other mechanical techniques.

Primary reference: P.R. Hoover. 1981. Paleontology, Taphonomy, and Paleoecology of the Palmarito Formation (Permian of Venezuela). Bulletins of American Paleontology 80(313):1-138 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41505: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.07.2004

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