SJ-15 Agua de La Paloma (Ordovician of Argentina)

Where: San Juan, Argentina (29.8° S, 68.7° W: paleocoordinates 35.6° S, 132.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Llanvirn (468.0 - 458.4 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, black, gray limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Keidel

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 116116: 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 - Raphiophoridae
Mendolaspis salagastensis Rusconi 1951 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
"? Dolerobasilicus sp." = Basilicus
"? Dolerobasilicus sp." = Basilicus Salter 1849 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Proetida - Telephinidae
"Keidelia macrophthalma" = Carolinites macrophthalma
"Keidelia macrophthalma" = Carolinites macrophthalma Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite