91-1. Sacabambilla (Ordovician of Bolivia)

Where: Bolivia (17.8° S, 65.8° W: paleocoordinates 45.1° S, 127.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Anzaldo Formation, Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Anzaldo Fm, AGE: Caradocian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION:

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary sandstone

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Concretionary sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of taphonomic description.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Museo de Historia Natural Alcide d’Orbigny (MHNC), Cochabamba and (as a temporary deposit) in the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris.

Primary reference: A. Pradel, I. J. Sansom, P.-Y. Gagnier, R. Cespedes, and P. Janvier. 2007. The tail of the Ordovician fish Scabambaspis. Biology Letters 3:72-75 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90387: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.07.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to taxon described in text. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identification.
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Pteraspidomorpha
 Arandaspida - Arandaspididae
Sacabambaspis janvieri
Sacabambaspis janvieri Gagnier et al. 1986