Arroyo Lapa, S. Chacicó form., 27 m above base of the unit (Jurassic of Argentina)

Where: Argentina (39.3° S, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 39.3° S, 29.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Behrendseni (Hillebrandt) ammonoid zone, Sierra Chacicó Formation, Early/Lower Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• The sample was obtained 27 meters above the base of the unit, on the contact with the Lapa Formation.

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, tuffaceous, gray siltstone

• The radiolarian bearing sample consists of medium to massively bedded gray tuffaceous siltstone with abundant well-preserved silicified radiolarians

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: I. Pujana. 1996. A new Lower Jurassic radiolarian from the Neuquén Basin, central west Argentina. XIII. Congreso Geológico Argentino y III Congreso de Exploración de Hidrocarburos, Actas 5:133-142 [J. Pálfy/A. Kocsis]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119950: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Adam Kocsis on 06.11.2011

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Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
Paronaella aff. corpulenta De Wever 1981 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Parvivaccidae
 Spumellaria - Pantanelliidae
Trillus elkhornensis Pessagno and Blome 1980 radiolarian
Pantanellium inornatum Pessagno and Poisson 1981 radiolarian
Pseudopantanellium floridum Yeh 1987 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Hagiastridae
Crucella mijo De Wever 1981 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Orbiculiformidae
Orbiculiforma "sp. A" Pessagno 1973 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Bagotidae
Bagotidae indet. Pessagno and Whalen 1982 radiolarian
Canutus rennellensis Gorican et al. 2006 radiolarian
Bagotum modestum Pessagno and Whalen 1982 radiolarian
Droltus hecatensis Pessagno and Whalen 1982 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Hsuidae
"Canutus izeensis" = Parahsuum izeense, Parahsuum simplum
"Canutus izeensis" = Parahsuum izeense Pessagno and Whalen 1982 radiolarian
Parahsuum simplum Yao 1982 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Farcidae