Where: Neuquen, Argentina (38.6° S, 70.2° W: paleocoordinates 35.9° S, 31.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Patagoniense ammonoid zone, Lotena Formation, Late/Upper Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)
• 0.20 m bed of nodular greenish gray marl in nodules, yellow weathered.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, nodular, gray, green marl
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, replaced with limonite
Primary reference: H. Parent. 2006. Oxfordian and late Callovian ammonite faunas and biostratigraphy of the Neuquen-Mendoza and Tarapaca Basins (Jurassic, Ammonoidea, Western South-America). Boletin del Instituto de Fisiografia y Geologia 76(1-2):1-70 [J. Alroy/J. Martinelli]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 158522: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.07.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
? Paracuariceras sp. ammonite | |
Perisphinctidae indet. Steinmann 1890 ammonite | |
Eurycephalitinae indet. Thierry 1976 ammonite | |
Lytoceratidae indet. Neumayr 1875 ammonite | |
Peltoceras cf. convexum Hillebrandt 1995 ammonite | |
Hecticoceratinae indet., Hecticoceras (Sublunuloceras) cf. virguloides, "Hecticoceras (Sublunuloceras) cf. lairense" = Hecticoceras lairense, ? Concavites sp.
Hecticoceratinae indet. Spath 1925 ammonite
Hecticoceras (Sublunuloceras) cf. virguloides Gerard and Contaut 1936 ammonite
"Hecticoceras (Sublunuloceras) cf. lairense" = Hecticoceras lairense Waagen 1875 ammonite
? Concavites sp. Jeannet 1951 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
"Lucina" sp. Bruguière 1797 clam |