In:
Journal of Paleontology, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 69, No. 2 ( 1995-03), p. 257-263
Abstract:
Fossiliferous marine Devonian has been known in Chile for less than a decade. The initial discovery from south of the Salar de Atacama region, in the Sierra de Almeida, northern Chile is described together with its brachiopods. The brachiopods indicate an age span of Emsian–Eifelian or Givetian, shallow-water conditions in the Benthic Assemblage 2 range, and a biogeographic boundary region between the cool climate Malvinokaffric Realm and warmer region extra-Malvinokaffric Realms, including the Eastern Americas Realm and the Rhenish-Bohemian Region of the Old World Realm. The recent discovery of a Malvinokaffric Realm trilobite far to the south in Chile, at Buill in the Andes of Chiloe, serves to underline our very preliminary knowledge of the Chilean Devonian, whereas the alleged Devonian brachiopods from the Chonos Archipelago far to the south are probably bivalves of uncertain age.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0022-3360
,
1937-2337
DOI:
10.1017/S0022336000034594
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
1995
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219113-1
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2047591-3
SSG:
13
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