Gutierrez Fauna (mainly from Morales's collection) (Devonian to of Colombia)
Where: Colombia (4.3° N, 74.0° W: paleocoordinates 51.4° S, 53.5° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Emsian to Emsian (409.1 - 388.1 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, brown, gray sandstone and shale
• "fossils founds...in the form of internal molds...part of of them occur in a hard, fine-grained, gray and brownish -gray sandstone. Others are preserved in soft buff shales of the Floresta type"
Primary reference: P. A. Morales. 1965. A contribution to the knowledge of the Devonian faunas of Colombia. Boletin de Geologia 19:51-111 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote] more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36018: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 13.01.2004