C-1 Rio Chaschuil, Sierra de Narvaez (Ordovician of Argentina)

Where: Catamarca, Argentina (27.6° S, 67.6° W: paleocoordinates 38.7° S, 130.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: C Member (Suri Formation), Floian (477.7 - 470.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A.V. Borrello

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 116147: 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 - Asaphidae
"Hoekaspis megacantha" = Merlinia megacantha
"Hoekaspis megacantha" = Merlinia megacantha Leanza 1941 trilobite