Where: Venezuela (8.6° N, 71.2° W: paleocoordinates 55.2° S, 83.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: El Horno Formation, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)
• Late Llandovery-C5; see Boucot et al. 1972--PBDB ref. 7026. Occurrence is from a stream boulder--it is not entirely clear from the discussion in references 7007 and 7026 whether this represents Caparo Formation or not. This was originally part of the Caparo Formation, but that is now restricted to the Sandbian.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. J. Boucot, J. L. Benedetto, Y. Grahn, J. H. G. Melo, T. M. Sanchez and B. A. Waisfeld. 1999. South American marine Silurian communities. In A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 841-848 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 25070: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 27.08.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Pholidostrophia (Mesopholidostrophia) sp. Williams 1950 | |
Protomegastrophia sp. Caster 1939 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhynchonellida indet. Kuhn 1949 | |
Resserella sp. Bancroft 1928 | |
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