S.Vic-19 (U20) Rio Santa Victoria Section (Ordovician of Argentina)

Where: Salta, Argentina (22.2° S, 64.9° W: paleocoordinates 44.4° S, 129.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Arenigian (478.6 - 468.1 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray, green, muddy sandstone

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 116094: 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 - Ceratopygidae
Nannopeltis modesta Harrington 1938 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Thysanopyge argentina Kayser 1898 trilobite