Where: Jujuy, Argentina (23.7° S, 65.6° W: paleocoordinates 44.5° 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)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray marl
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 115673: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 03.09.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
"Basiliella carinata" = Mekynophrys nanna, Notopeltis orthometopa
"Basiliella carinata" = Mekynophrys nanna Harrington 1938 trilobite
Notopeltis orthometopa Harrington 1938 trilobite | |
Artiopoda | |
Geragnostus sp. Howell 1935 |