S.Cap-9 (H3) Cerro San Bernado (Ordovician of Argentina)

Where: Salta, Argentina (24.8° S, 65.4° W: paleocoordinates 41.9° S, 130.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Arenigian (478.6 - 468.1 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, brown, yellow, 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. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press 1:1-276 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 115738: 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.
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
Nannopeltis modesta Harrington 1938 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Thysanopyge argentina Kayser 1898 trilobite
Megalaspidella kayseri Kobayashi 1937 trilobite
Megalaspis saltaensis Kayser 1898 trilobite