S.Vic-19 (P5) Rio Santa Victoria Section ( of Argentina)

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

• Primarily trilobite taxonomy and biostrat.
Trilobita
 Trinucleida - Alsataspididae
"Orometopus pyrifrons" = Pyrimetopus pyrifrons
"Orometopus pyrifrons" = Pyrimetopus pyrifrons Harrington 1938 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Asaphellus catamarcensis Kobayashi 1935 trilobite
Notopeltis orthometopa Harrington 1938 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
"Protopliomerops rossi" = Rossaspis rossi
"Protopliomerops rossi" = Rossaspis rossi Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite