S.Iru-4c Quebrada Colorada ( of Argentina)

Where: Salta, Argentina (22.7° S, 65.2° W: paleocoordinates 45.5° S, 128.5° 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: offshore; lithified, gray shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Keidel

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 115772: 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
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
"Protopliomerops rossi" = Rossaspis rossi
"Protopliomerops rossi" = Rossaspis rossi Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Asaphellus jujuanus Harrington 1937 trilobite