KT section Paso del Sapo, Canadón Asfalto Basin, SM50 (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Where: Chubut, Argentina (42.7° S, 70.0° W: paleocoordinates 44.8° S, 58.4° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lefipán Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• K/T boundary (basis of SM30) is at 0 m. Beds lumped over 0.50 m. Data from bed/horizon refers to midpoint of sampled beds.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; mudstone

• inner shelf environment.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, original calcite, replaced with calcite

Collected by Aberhan, M., Kiessling, W., Weidemeyer, S. in 2004

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: S. Weidemeyer. 2007. Molluscs at the K/Pg boundary in Argentina: Extinction and recovery patterns. unpublished Ph.D. thesis. [W. Kiessling/S. Weidemeyer]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74092: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sven Weidemeyer on 21.07.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Echinoid plates were reported but not included
Echinoidea
 Echinoida -
Echinoida "irr" Troschel 1872 sea urchin
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculanidae indet. Adams and Adams 1858 pointed nut clam
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Australoneilo gracilis Wilckens 1905 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea sp. Menard 1807 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
 Carditida - Carditidae
 Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea "symmetrica" Douglas and Arkell 1932 file clam