J.Til-13 (K1) Quebrada de Yacoraite ( of Argentina)

Where: Jujuy, Argentina (23.4° S, 65.4° W: paleocoordinates 44.9° S, 128.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.J. Zunino and E. Mauri

Primary reference: H. J. Harrington and A. F. Leanza. 1957. Ordovician trilobites of Argentina. Department of Geology, University of Kansas Special Publication. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press 1:1-276 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 115582: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 02.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Primarily trilobite taxonomy and biostrat.
Trilobita
 Olenida - Olenidae
"Parabolinopsis mariana" = Leptoplastides marianus, Parabolinella argentinensis, "Triarthrus tetragonalis" = Bienvillia tetragonalis
"Parabolinopsis mariana" = Leptoplastides marianus Hoek 1912 trilobite
Parabolinella argentinensis Kobayashi 1936 trilobite
"Triarthrus tetragonalis" = Bienvillia tetragonalis Harrington 1938 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Alsataspididae
Hapalopleura clavata Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
Shumardia erquensis Kobayashi 1937 trilobite
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
Pseudohysterolenus infidus Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Asaphellus catamarcensis Kobayashi 1935 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Kainella sp. Walcott 1925 trilobite
Kainella meridionalis Kobayashi 1935 trilobite
Apatokephalus serratus Boeck 1838 trilobite
Pseudokainella lata Kobayashi 1935 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae