J.Til-17 (G4) Quebrada Pocoy ( of Argentina)

Where: Jujuy, Argentina (23.6° S, 65.4° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 31.1° S, 162.7° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray, green shale and lithified sandstone

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 1:1-276 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 115651: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 02.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

• Primarily trilobite taxonomy and biostrat.
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
Shumardia erquensis Kobayashi 1937 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Asaphellus catamarcensis Kobayashi 1935 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Kainella meridionalis Kobayashi 1935 trilobite
 Olenida - Olenidae
"Parabolinopsis mariana" = Leptoplastides marianus
"Parabolinopsis mariana" = Leptoplastides marianus Hoek 1912 trilobite