Sample R5, Rovira (Devonian to of Colombia)
Where: Colombia (4.2° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 50.4° S, 54.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Emsian to Emsian (409.1 - 388.1 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained sandstone and shale
• Biofacies 1, "offshore open marine paleoenvironments below wave base"
• "Rougly 130 m [exposure]: 70 m of basal sandstone with intercalations of conglomerate and shale, 30 m of dark gray shale, and at the top about 30 m of fine sandstone with shale interbeds. Collections R3-R5 come from the upper 30 m of fine-grained sandstone with shale interbeds; no detailed section was measured here."
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 Paleoecology and stratigraphy of Devonian sediments in the northern Andes, Colombia: paleogeographic implications [Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Chicago]. 1-329 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote] more details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 35981: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 12.01.2004