Where: La Pampa, Argentina (36.6° S, 68.2° W: paleocoordinates 38.9° S, 55.9° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: CC26 nannofossil zone, Jagüel Formation (Malargüe Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• from "a bed of mudstones"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; wackestone
lithology said to be "mudstones" in text but illustrated as wackestone in section
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. M. Feldmann, S. Casadío, L. Chirino-Galvez and M. Aguirre-Urreta. 1995. Fossil decapod crustaceans from the Jaguel and Roca Formations (Maastrichtian-Danian) of the Neuquen Basin, Argentina. Journal of Paleontology 69(5 II):1-22 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/F. Aspromonte]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 5167: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 01.09.1999, edited by Franco Aspromonte
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
"Hemiaster hawkinsi" = Hemiaster stella2
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Bivalvia | |
Panopea inferior clam | |
"Pterotrigonia (Rinetrigonia) windhauseniana" = Trigonia windhauseniana1, Austrotrigonia sobrali, Austrotrigonia pampeana1, Pacitrigonia pampeana, Pacitrigonia sobrali1
"Pterotrigonia (Rinetrigonia) windhauseniana" = Trigonia windhauseniana1 Wilckens 1921 clam GHUNLPam 617-623
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Rastellum clarae oyster | |
Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864 scallop | |
Cephalopoda | |
Baculites sp. Lamarck 1799 ammonite | |
Malacostraca | |
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