S.Ros-12 (M4) Quebrada de Lampazar ( of Argentina)

Where: Salta, Argentina (24.5° S, 65.7° W: paleocoordinates 43.7° S, 128.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, green, yellow shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P. Pascual

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 115829: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 04.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Primarily trilobite taxonomy and biostrat.
Trilobita
 Olenida - Olenidae
"Triarthrus tetragonalis" = Bienvillia tetragonalis Harrington 1938 trilobite
Protopeltura mesembria Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite
Parabolinella argentinensis Kobayashi 1936 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Niobina taurina Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite