Where: Parana, Brazil (24.6° S, 50.5° W: paleocoordinates 83.5° S, 108.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sao Domingos Formation, Early/Lower Givetian (388.1 - 383.7 Ma)

• 20.5 m thick

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified siltstone and lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: E. P. Bosetti, Y. Grahn, R. S. Horodyski, P. Mendlowicz Mauller, P. Breuer and C. Zabini. 2011. An earliest Givetian "Lilliput effect" in the Parana Basin, and the collapse of the Malvinokaffric shelly fauna. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 85:49-65 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106996: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.03.2011

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