S.Cal-4 (A5) Road to La Caldera ( of Argentina)

Where: Salta, Argentina (24.6° S, 65.4° W: paleocoordinates 43.8° S, 129.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, quartzose, brown, yellow 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 115699: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 03.09.2011, edited by Melanie Hopkins

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Primarily trilobite taxonomy and biostrat.
Trilobita
 Olenida - Olenidae
Leptoplastides argentinensis Kobayashi 1935 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Asaphellus catamarcensis Kobayashi 1935 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Kainella meridionalis Kobayashi 1935 trilobite