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
Trilobita | |
"Protopliomerops rossi" = Rossaspis rossi
"Protopliomerops rossi" = Rossaspis rossi Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite | |
Asaphellus jujuanus Harrington 1937 trilobite |