Agrio del Medio (La Tosca Member, Huitrin Formation) (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Also known as Rio Agrio Area

Where: Argentina (38.4° S, 70.0° W: paleocoordinates 38.3° S, 34.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: La Tosca Member (Huitrin Formation), Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified wackestone

• middle to outer carbonate ramp

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. G. Lazo and S. E. Damborenea. 2011. Barremian Bivalves From the Huitrín Formation, West-Central Argentina: Taxonomy and Paleoecology Of A Restricted Marine Association. Journal of Paleontology 85(4):721-749 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 114199: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 11.08.2011

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Taxonomic list

• focus on bivalves
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Isocyprinidae
Argenticyprina mulensis Lazo and Damborenea 2011 clam
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Anthonya jarai Lazo and Damborenea 2011 clam