S.Cal-8 (F4) Potrero de Castillo ( of Argentina)

Where: Salta, Argentina (24.5° S, 65.5° W: paleocoordinates 43.8° S, 129.1° 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: coastal; lithified, gray, green, muddy 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 115704: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 03.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Primarily trilobite taxonomy and biostrat.
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Geragnostus sp. Howell 1935
Trilobita
 Trinucleida - Alsataspididae
"Orometopus pyrifrons" = Pyrimetopus pyrifrons
"Orometopus pyrifrons" = Pyrimetopus pyrifrons Harrington 1938 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Notopeltis orthometopa, "Basiliella carinata" = Mekynophrys nanna
Notopeltis orthometopa Harrington 1938 trilobite
"Basiliella carinata" = Mekynophrys nanna Harrington 1938 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
"Protopliomerops rossi" = Rossaspis rossi
"Protopliomerops rossi" = Rossaspis rossi Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite