page_title: Catavi Formation
section_title: Fossil content
hierarchical_section_title: Catavi Formation / Fossil content
caption_attribution_description: English: A map of the world as it appeared during the Early Devonian (400 ma). The image was made by Christopher Scotese and reprojected by me using G.Projector.
context_page_description: The Catavi Formation is a Pridoli to Emsian geologic formation of northern and central Bolivia. The formation comprises a 456 m thick succession of fine-grained, olive to brown sandstones and siltstones, shales and black limestones deposited in a shallow to deep marine environment.
context_section_description: The formation has provided the following fossils:
  Andinodesma radicostata
  Antarctilamna seriponensis
  Australocoelia tourteloti
  Bolivacanthus sagitalis
  Burmeisteria herscheli
  Cingulochitina ceneratiensis, C. ervensis
  Clarkeia antisiensis
  Climatius enodiscosta
  Gomphonchus pluriformis
  Gyracanthus seriponensis
  Kazachstania gerardoi
  Leonaspis (Leonaspis) aracana
  Leonaspis (Leonaspis) berryi
  Leonaspis (? Leonaspis) chacaltayana
  Nodonchus rectus
  Odontochile andii
  Onchus punctuatus, O. sicaeformis
  Paciphacops waisfeldae
  Palaeoneilo unionoides
  Phacopina (Phacopina) chojnacotensis
  Sinacanthus boliviensis
  Turinia gondwana
  Andinacaste cf. legrandi
  Burmeisteria (Digonus) cf. noticus
  Calymene sp.
  Pleurodictyum sp.
  Trimerus sp.
  Acanthodii indet.
  Brachiopoda indet.
  Bryozoa indet.
  Cephalopoda indet.
  Gastropoda indet.
  Ischnacanthida indet.
  Ophiuroidea indet.
  Palaeotaxodonta indet.
  Tentaculitida indet.
  Trilobita indet.
caption: Early Devonian (400 Ma)