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
Trilobita | |
"Triarthrus tetragonalis" = Bienvillia tetragonalis, Protopeltura mesembria, Parabolinella argentinensis
"Triarthrus tetragonalis" = Bienvillia tetragonalis Harrington 1938 trilobite
Protopeltura mesembria Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite
Parabolinella argentinensis Kobayashi 1936 trilobite | |
Niobina taurina Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite |