Pojo (Silurian of Bolivia)

Also known as Eurypterid-Associated Biota of the Kirusillas Formation at Pojo, Bolivia

Where: Bolivia (17.8° S, 64.8° W: paleocoordinates 52.8° S, 121.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Colonograptuas praedeubeli - Colonograptus deubeli graptolite zone, Kirusillas Formation, Homerian (430.5 - 427.4 Ma)

• 360 m above Monograptus dubius horizon (Ludlow) and below Gedinnian age horizon of Australocoelia tourteloti.

•Was given as Ludlow-Pridoli. Grahn (2002) gives as upper Ludlow (PJW). However, Maletz et al. (2002) note that the graptolites indicating Ludlow age were misidentified, and indentify Homerian species instead.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; black, green shale

• "BA 1"
• "greenish black shale"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. N. Kjellesvig-Waering. 1973. A new Silurian Slimonia (Eurypterida) from Bolivia. Journal of Paleontology 47(3):549-550 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26984: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 11.11.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
"Metazoa indet." = Animalia
"Metazoa indet." = Animalia Linnaeus 1758
"worms"
Bivalvia
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"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
Lingulata
  -
Lingulata indet. Gorjansky and Popov 1985
"linguloids"
Tentaculita
 Styliolinida - Styliolinidae
Styliolina sp. Karpinsky 1884
Euchelicerata
 Eurypterida - Slimonidae