S.Vic-14 (L19) Rio de la Huerta (Ordovician of Argentina)

Where: Salta, Argentina (22.2° S, 65.0° W: paleocoordinates 46.0° S, 128.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tremadoc (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. Nesossi

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 115998: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 05.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Primarily trilobite taxonomy and biostrat.
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Notopeltis orthometopa Harrington 1938 trilobite