Where: Jujuy, Argentina (23.6° S, 65.4° W: paleocoordinates 44.7° S, 128.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Notopeltis orthometopa trilobite zone, Humacha Member (Santa Rosita Formation), Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, black, gray shale and lithified, gray, green 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 115656: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 02.09.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Trilobita | |
"Triarthrus rectifrons" = Bienvillia rectifrons
"Triarthrus rectifrons" = Bienvillia rectifrons Harrington 1938 trilobite | |
"Orometopus pyrifrons" = Pyrimetopus pyrifrons
"Orometopus pyrifrons" = Pyrimetopus pyrifrons Harrington 1938 trilobite | |
|
Nannopeltis modesta Harrington 1938 trilobite | |
|
Asaphellus sp. Callaway 1877 trilobite
Notopeltis orthometopa Harrington 1938 trilobite | |
|
Apatokephalus serratus Boeck 1838 trilobite | |
|
? Illaenopsis sp. Salter 1865 trilobite | |