NA-35, Nevado de Acotambo (Triassic of Peru)

Where: Peru (8.8° S, 77.1° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 20.7° S, 35.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chambara Formation (Pucara Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• thickly-bedded to massive limestone and dolomitic limestone with minor shaly interbeds

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: recrystallized, replaced with silica

Collected by B. Senowbari-Daryan, G. Stanley in 1983; reposited in the UMMP

Collection methods: chemical

Primary reference: M. R. Sandy. 1994. Triassic-Jurassic articulate brachiopods from the Pucara Group, central Peru, and description of the brachidial net in the spiriferid Spondylospira. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 233:99-126 [W. Kiessling/B. Brenneis/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144417: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.05.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Spondylospiridae
Spondylospira lewesensis