Gutierrez Fauna (mainly from Morales's collection): Emsian - Eifelian, Colombia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
Pelecypoda indet. Goldfuss 1820
synonym of Bivalvia
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Platyostoma lineata (Conrad 1842)
Rhynchonellata - Tropidoleptidae
Tropidoleptus carinatus (Conrad 1839)
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Hysterolitidae
Australospirifer antarcticus
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Rhipidomella liddlei
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Pulsiidae
Schellwienella goldringae
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Rhytistrophia caribbeana
spelled with current rank as Leptostrophia (Rhytistrophia)
unclassified
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Trilobita - Phacopida - Phacopidae
Phacops salteri Kozlowski 1923
recombined as Viaphacops salteri
Anthozoa - Favositida - Micheliniidae
Pleurodictyum americanum
see common names

Geography
Country:Colombia
Coordinates: 4.3° North, 74.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.4° South, 53.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Devonian
Key time interval:Emsian - Eifelian
Age range of interval:407.60000 - 387.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,brown,gray sandstone
Secondary lithology: "shale"
Lithology description: "fossils founds...in the form of internal molds...part of of them occur in a hard, fine-grained, gray and brownish -gray sandstone. Others are preserved in soft buff shales of the Floresta type"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:36018
Authorizer:M. Foote Enterer:M. Foote
Modifier:M. Foote Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-01-13 09:37:05 Last modified:2006-09-13 14:01:03
Access level:the public Released:2004-01-13 09:37:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

9677. P. A. Morales. 1965. A contribution to the knowledge of the Devonian faunas of Colombia. Boletin de Geologia 19:51-111 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]

Secondary references:

9639 S. F. Barrett. 1988. The Devonian System in Colombia. In N. J. McMillan, A. F. Embry, D. J. Glass (eds.), Devonian of the World, Volume I 705-717 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Uhen]