ammonites
Sample ES5A, Bucaramanga (Devonian to of Colombia)

Where: Colombia (7.1° N, 73.1° W: paleocoordinates 50.7° S, 48.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Emsian to Emsian (409.1 - 388.1 Ma)

• "Only dip-slope outcrops on the western slope of the valley; no measurable section"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale and conglomerate

• Biofacies 1, "offshore open marine paleoenvironments below wave base"

Collection methods: bulk

Primary reference: S. F. Barrett. 1986. Paleoecology and stratigraphy of Devonian sediments in the northern Andes, Colombia: paleogeographic implications [Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Chicago]. 1-329 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35977: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 12.01.2004