# Catavi Formation

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The **Catavi Formation** is a [Pridoli](/source/Pridoli_epoch) to [Emsian](/source/Emsian) geologic [formation](/source/Formation_(geology)) of northern and central Bolivia. The formation comprises a 456 m (1,496 ft) thick succession of fine-grained, olive to brown [sandstones](/source/Sandstone) and [siltstones](/source/Siltstone), [shales](/source/Shale) and black [limestones](/source/Limestone) deposited in a shallow to deep marine [environment](/source/Depositional_environment).[1][2][3][4][5]

## Fossil content

The formation has provided the following fossils:

- *[Andinodesma radicostata](/source/Andinodesma)*
- *[Antarctilamna seriponensis](/source/Antarctilamna)*
- *[Australocoelia tourteloti](/source/Australocoelia)*
- *[Bolivacanthus sagitalis](/source/Bolivacanthus)*
- *[Burmeisteria herscheli](/source/Burmeisteria)*
- *[Cingulochitina ceneratiensis](/source/Cingulochitina)*, *[C. ervensis](/source/Cingulochitina)*
- *[Clarkeia antisiensis](/source/Clarkeia)*
- *[Climatius enodiscosta](/source/Climatius)*
- *[Gomphonchus pluriformis](/source/Gomphonchus)*
- *[Gyracanthus seriponensis](/source/Gyracanthus)*
- *[Kazachstania gerardoi](/source/Kazachstania_(trilobite))*
- *[Leonaspis (Leonaspis) aracana](/source/Leonaspis)*
- *[Leonaspis (Leonaspis) berryi](/source/Leonaspis)*
- *[Leonaspis (? Leonaspis) chacaltayana](/source/Leonaspis)*
- *[Nodonchus rectus](/source/Nodonchus)*
- *[Odontochile andii](/source/Odontochile)*
- *[Onchus punctuatus](/source/Onchus)*, *[O. sicaeformis](/source/Onchus)*
- *[Paciphacops waisfeldae](/source/Paciphacops)*
- *[Palaeoneilo unionoides](/source/Palaeoneilo)*
- *[Phacopina (Phacopina) chojnacotensis](/source/Phacopina)*
- *[Sinacanthus boliviensis](/source/Sinacanthus)*
- *[Turinia gondwana](/source/Turinia)*
- *[Andinacaste cf. legrandi](/source/Andinacaste)*
- *[Burmeisteria (Digonus) cf. noticus](/source/Burmeisteria)*
- *[Calymene sp.](/source/Calymene)*
- *[Pleurodictyum sp.](/source/Pleurodictyum)*
- *[Trimerus sp.](/source/Trimerus)*
- [Acanthodii indet.](/source/Acanthodii)
- [Brachiopoda indet.](/source/Brachiopoda)
- [Bryozoa indet.](/source/Bryozoa)
- [Cephalopoda indet.](/source/Cephalopoda)
- [Gastropoda indet.](/source/Gastropoda)
- [Ischnacanthida indet.](/source/Ischnacanthida)
- [Ophiuroidea indet.](/source/Ophiuroidea)
- [Palaeotaxodonta indet.](/source/Palaeotaxodonta)
- [Tentaculitida indet.](/source/Tentaculitida)
- [Trilobita indet.](/source/Trilobita)

## See also

- [List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Bolivia](/source/List_of_fossiliferous_stratigraphic_units_in_Bolivia)

## References

1. [Catavi Unit C3 near Cochabamba](https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayCollResults?collection_no=25587) at [Fossilworks](/source/Fossilworks).org

1. [Catavi vertebrate and mollusc fauna at Seripona](https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayCollResults?collection_no=25592) at [Fossilworks](/source/Fossilworks).org

1. [Catavi Beds, (Phacopina chojnacotensis bed) La Paz Province, Bolivia](https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayCollResults?collection_no=37052) at [Fossilworks](/source/Fossilworks).org

1. [Catavi Unit C1 near Cochabamba](https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayCollResults?collection_no=25584) at [Fossilworks](/source/Fossilworks).org

1. [Trilobite faunule in Catavi unit C2 near Cochabamba](https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayCollResults?collection_no=25579) at [Fossilworks](/source/Fossilworks).org

## Further reading

- G. D. Edgecombe and L. Ramskold. 1994. Earliest Devonian phacopide trilobites from central Bolivia. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 68(3/4):397-410
- P. Y. Gagnier, S. Turner, L. Friman, M. Suarez-Riglos, and P. Janvier. 1988. The Devonian vertebrate and mollusc fauna from Seripona (Dept. of Chiquisaca, Bolivia). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 176(2):269-297
- U. Rehfeld and J. Mehl. 1989. *Andinodesma radiata* n. gen. n. sp., a grammysiid taxon from the Lower Devonian Catavi-Formation (Bolivia) and its autecological and phylogenetic implications. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 63(3/4):263-279
- Wolfart, R (1968), "Die Trilobiten aus dem Devon Boliviens und ihre Bedeutung fuer Stratigraphie und Tiergeographie", *[Beihefte zum Geologischen Jahrbuch](/source/Beihefte_zum_Geologischen_Jahrbuch)*. **74**: 5–201

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