Where: Salta, Argentina (22.2° S, 64.9° W: paleocoordinates 46.2° S, 128.6° 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 marl
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 1:1-276 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 116080: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 05.09.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
"Orometopus pyrifrons" = Pyrimetopus pyrifrons
"Orometopus pyrifrons" = Pyrimetopus pyrifrons Harrington 1938 trilobite | |
Asaphellus catamarcensis Kobayashi 1935 trilobite
Notopeltis orthometopa Harrington 1938 trilobite | |
"Protopliomerops rossi" = Rossaspis rossi
"Protopliomerops rossi" = Rossaspis rossi Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite |