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

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