LR-6 Puesto El Despacho (Ordovician of Argentina)

Where: La Rioja, Argentina (28.7° S, 67.7° W: paleocoordinates 37.7° S, 130.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oepikodus evae conodont zone, C Member (Suri Formation), Floian (477.7 - 470.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, gray, green sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H.J. Harrington

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 116143: 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 - Pliomeridae
Pliomera tmetophrys Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Lonchodomas suriensis Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Famatinolithus noticus Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite
 Asaphida - Hungaiidae
"Asaphopsis intermedia" = Hungioides intermedia
"Asaphopsis intermedia" = Hungioides intermedia Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
"Hoekaspis megacantha" = Merlinia megacantha, Ogygitella australis
"Hoekaspis megacantha" = Merlinia megacantha Leanza 1941 trilobite
Ogygitella australis Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite