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
Artiopoda | |
Geragnostus sp. Howell 1935 | |
Trilobita | |
"Orometopus pyrifrons" = Pyrimetopus pyrifrons
"Orometopus pyrifrons" = Pyrimetopus pyrifrons Harrington 1938 trilobite | |
Notopeltis orthometopa, "Basiliella carinata" = Mekynophrys nanna
Notopeltis orthometopa Harrington 1938 trilobite
"Basiliella carinata" = Mekynophrys nanna Harrington 1938 trilobite | |
"Protopliomerops rossi" = Rossaspis rossi
"Protopliomerops rossi" = Rossaspis rossi Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite |