Lower–Middle Ordovician brachiopods from the Eastern Cordillera of Peru: evidence of active faunal dispersal across Rheic and Iapetus oceans
Jorge Colmenar,
César Augusto Chacaltana,
Juan Carlos Gutiérrez‐Marco
Abstract:New Floian and early middle Darriwilian brachiopod assemblages of the San José Formation of the Eastern Cordillera of Peru are presented. A new genus and species, Apurimella santiagoi, and two new species, Phragmorthis henrylunae and Nocturnellia ashaninka, are described. The assemblages also contain additional characteristic taxa demonstrating links with other proto‐Andean localities (Peruvian Altiplano, Argentinian Eastern Cordillera, Famatina) as well as with some localities of Baltica (Estonia, Ingria, Nor… Show more
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