Sepulturas Fm., Cordillera Oriental, Argentina (Ordovician to of Argentina)

Where: Argentina (23.0° S, 66.0° W: paleocoordinates 42.4° S, 129.2° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Sepulturas Formation, Volkhov to Volkhov (471.1 - 469.2 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

• not recorded

Collection methods: JA: marked by Novack-Gottshall without explanation as omitting some genera, some macrofossils, some microfossils, and species names, but apparently complete

Primary reference: T. M. Sanchez and B.G. Waisfeld. 1995. Benthic assemblages in the northwestern of Gondwana: A test of the Ordovician evolutionary radiation model. In J.D. Cooper, M.L. Droser, S.C. Finney (eds.), Ordovician Odyssey: Short papers for the seventh international symposium on the Ordovician system 409-412 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8865: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 02.09.2000

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Hesperonomiidae
Monorthis sp.
 Orthida - Orthidae
Paralenorthis sp.
Paralenorthis sp. Havlicek and Branisa 1980
Bivalvia
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Cuneamya sp.
Cuneamya sp. Hall and Whitfield 1875 clam
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiolopsis sp.
Modiolopsis sp. Hall 1847 clam
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Neseuretus sp.
Neseuretus sp. Hicks 1873 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
? Anebolithus sp.
? Anebolithus sp. Huges and Wright 1970 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Ogyginus sp., Hoekaspis sp.
Ogyginus sp. Raymond 1912 trilobite
Hoekaspis sp. Kobayashi 1937 trilobite