• Source: Pircancha Formation

The Pircancha Formation is a Floian to Dapingian geologic formation of southern Bolivia. The green mudstones, shales and sandstones were deposited in a shallow to open marine environment. The fossil Pircanchaspis rinconensis is named after the formation.




Fossil content


The formation has provided the following fossils:




See also


List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Bolivia




References






= Bibliography

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Aubrechtová, Martina (2015), "A revision of the Ordovician cephalopod Bactrites sandbergeri Barrande: systematic position and palaeobiogeography of Bactroceras", Geobios, 48 (3): 193–211, Bibcode:2015Geobi..48..193A, doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2015.03.002, retrieved 2019-03-03




Further reading


B.-D. Erdtmann, B. Weber, H.-P. Schultze and S. Egenhoff. 2000. A possible agnathan plate from the lower Arenig (Lower Ordovician) of South Bolivia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(2):394-399
M. Toro and S. Fernandez. 1979. Los fósiles de la formación Pircancha aflorante en Chilcayo, Provincia Méndez - Depto. Tarija. Revista de la Academia Nacional de Ciencas de Bolivia 163-169

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