Ammonoids of Canadon de las Alazanes, Neuquen, Bed CA16 (Jurassic to of Argentina)

Where: Neuquen, Argentina (38.7° S, 70.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° S, 32.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Vaca Muerta Formation, Middle Tithonian to Middle Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• upper Middle Tithonian - lower Upper Tithonian, Alternans? Biozone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Only Ammonoids.

Primary reference: H. Parent. 2001. The Middle Tithonian (Upper Jurassic) Ammonoid fauna of Canadon de los Alazanes, Southern Neuquen-Mendoza Basin, Argentina. Boletin del Instituto de Fisiografia y Geologia 71(1-2):19-38 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47415: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 24.02.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Himalayitidae
Corongoceras cf. alternans Gerth 1925 ammonite