SJ-1 Quebrada de Las Plantas (Los Celestitos) (Ordovician of Argentina)

Where: San Juan, Argentina (29.7° S, 68.7° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° S, 133.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nemagraptus gracilis graptolite zone, Los Azules Formation, Sandbian (458.4 - 453.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G. Furque

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 116102: 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
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Encrinurus sp. Emmrich 1844 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Guandacolithus furquei Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite