Where: Venezuela (10.5° N, 72.5° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° S, 44.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Cano Grande Formation (Rio Cachira Group), Emsian to Emsian (407.6 - 387.7 Ma)
• This part of section interpreted as Emsian to early Eifelian.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous mudstone
Collection methods: Abundances are given by authors.
Primary reference: T. M. Sanchez and J. L. Benedetto. 1983. Paleoecologia, comunidades bentonicas y sucesion paleoambiental en el Grupo Rio Cachiri, Devonico, Sierra de Perija, Venezueal. Ameghiniana 20(3-4):163-198 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35896: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 08.01.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
"cf. Trachypora sp." = Thamnoptychia
"cf. Trachypora sp." = Thamnoptychia Hall 1876 tabulate coral | |
cf. Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral | |
Rugosa indet. horn coral | |
cf. Homalophyllum sp. Simpson 1900 horn coral | |
"cf. Zaphrentis sp." = Zaphrenthis
"cf. Zaphrentis sp." = Zaphrenthis Rafinesque and Clifford 1820 horn coral | |
Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite | |
Strophomenata | |
Strophomenida indet. Opik 1934 | |
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Chonetidina indet. Muir-Wood 1955 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Acrospirifer sp. Wedekind 1926 | |
Fimbrispirifer sp. Cooper 1942 | |
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Coscinium sp. Keyserling 1846 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Ptychopteria (Actinopteria) sp." = Actinopteria
"Ptychopteria (Actinopteria) sp." = Actinopteria Hall 1884 oyster | |
Pseudaviculopecten sp. Newell 1938 scallop | |
Goniophora sp. Phillips 1848 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Platyostoma sp. Conrad 1842 snail
Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840 snail | |
unclassified | |
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