''Tarijactinoides'' is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida, which existed in what is now

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. It was described by Suárez Soruco in 1971, and the type species is ''Tarijactinoides jarcasensis''.Available Generic Names for Trilobites
P.A. Jell and J.M. Adrain.

Distribution

Fossils of two species of ''Tarijactinoides'', ''T. jarcasensis'' and ''T. tikanensis'', have been found in Emsian sediments of the Lower Belén, Lower Icla and Gamoneda Formations in Bolivia.''Tarijactinoides''
at

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.org A new species in the same genus was proposed by Morzadec et al. in 2015, found in the lower part of the

Floresta Formation The Floresta Formation ( es, Formación Floresta, Df) is a geological formation of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes. The sequence of siltstones, shales, coquinas and sandstone beds dates to the Devonian per ...

, Floresta, Boyacá. This formation of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the Eastern Ranges of the

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n Andes has provided several other trilobites.Morzadec et al., 2015, p.352

References

Bibliography

* Calmoniidae Phacopida genera Devonian trilobites of South America Fossils of Bolivia Devonian Bolivia Fossils of Colombia Devonian Colombia Floresta Formation Fossil taxa described in 1971 {{phacopida-stub