S.Iru-3 Levels C - Cerro Colorado ( of Argentina)

Where: Salta, Argentina (22.9° S, 65.2° W: paleocoordinates 45.4° S, 128.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, green, yellow shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.J. Zunino and E. Mauri

Primary reference: H. J. Harrington and A. F. Leanza. 1957. Ordovician trilobites of Argentina. Department of Geology, University of Kansas Special Publication. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press 1:1-276 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 115767: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 03.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Primarily trilobite taxonomy and biostrat.
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Machairagnostus tmetus Harrington and Leanza 1957
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
"Pseudoperonopsis zuninoi" = Semagnostus zuninoi
"Pseudoperonopsis zuninoi" = Semagnostus zuninoi Harrington and Leanza 1957
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Geragnostus (Microagnostus) vilonii Harrington and Leanza 1957
 Agnostida -
Leiagnostus turgidulus Harrington and Leanza 1957
Trilobita
 Olenida - Olenidae
Plicatolina scalpta Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite
Parabolina kobayashii Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite
Parabolinella coelatifrons Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite
Parabolinella argentinensis Kobayashi 1936 trilobite
[Parabolinella argentinenesis]