Where: Neuquen, Argentina (36.2° S, 69.9° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° S, 32.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pressulus ammonoid zone, La Manga Formation, Early/Lower Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)
• Correlated with Cordatum standard zone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Museo Provincial de Ciencias Naturales "Prof. Dr. Juna A. Olsacher", Zapala, Neuquen, Argentina (MOZ-PI).
Primary reference: H. Parent and A. C. Garrido. 2015. The ammonite fauna of the La Manga Formation (Late Callovian-Early Oxfordian) of Vega de la Veranada, Neuquén Basin, Argentina. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 275(2):163-217 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 165741: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 27.01.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Euaspidoceras ajax Leanza 1947 ammonite
Peltoceratoides pressulus Leanza 1947 ammonite | |
Veranadaites palmicostatus n. sp.
Veranadaites palmicostatus n. sp. Parent and Garrido 2015 ammonite |