Where: Argentina (30.3° S, 68.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° S, 132.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: San Juan Formation, Llanvirn (468.0 - 458.4 Ma)
• five meters below the contact with the overlying black shales of the Las Aguaditas Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified wackestone and lithified lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. G. Carrera. 2006. The new genus Multispongia (Porifera) from the Lower Ordovician limestones of the Argentine Precordillera. Ameghiniana 43(2):493-498 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 119907: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.11.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae | |
Multispongia aspera n. gen. n. sp.
Multispongia aspera n. gen. n. sp. Carrera 2006 demosponge |