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)
• Area sampled is exposed in the side wall of the stream bed, and comprises about 2 m laterally and 1 m normal to bedding. Fusulinids and ammonoids suggest that locality 4 (and underlying localities 1 and 2) are "late Leonardian" (Kungurian) in age. Palmarito Fm contains Perrinites hilli and Parafusulina of Kungurian age.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; silty packstone and calcareous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Collection methods: bulk, chemical,
• Sampled 2 m laterally and 1 m normal to bedding. Most were partially silicified (some totally silicified), etched with HCl. Dried silt periodically removed from block by air abrasion to speed decalcification.
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 41508: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
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Strophomenata | |
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Echinauris cf. liumbona Cooper and Grant 1975
"Kutorginella cf. umbonata" = Retaria umbonata Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
Rugatia intermedia Hoover 1981 | |
Holotricharina hirsuta Cooper and Grant 1975 | |
Meekella skenoides Girty 1908 | |
"Stauromata esoterica n. gen." = Dyoros esoterica, Chonetinetes cf. varians
"Stauromata esoterica n. gen." = Dyoros esoterica Hoover 1981 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Neospirifer venezuelensis Gerth 1931 | |
Composita cf. pilula Cooper and Grant 1976 | |
Bryozoa | |
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Stenolaemata | |
"Fenestrida indet." = Fenestelloidea
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Cephalopoda | |
Perrinites hilli Smith 1903 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
"Worthenia" cf. corrugata Chronic 1952 snail | |
Goniasma sp. Tomlin 1930 snail | |
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Palaeostylus sp. Mansuy 1914 snail |