Arroyo La Escondida (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Where: Mendoza, Argentina (34.6° S, 69.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° S, 33.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Agua de la Mula Member (Agrio Formation), Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• A partial Agrio Formation is only 75 m thick here (base not exposed).

Environment/lithology: yellow limestone

• yellowish-silty limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by M.B. Aguirre Urreta

Primary reference: P. F. Rawson and M. B. Aguirre-Urreta. 2012. Lower Cretaceous ammonites from the Neuquén Basin, Argentina: The Hauterivian genus Spitidiscus. Cretaceous Research 33:97-105 [J. Alroy/J. Martinelli]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135509: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Julieta Martinelli on 27.10.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Holcodiscidae
Spitidiscus kilapiae
Spitidiscus kilapiae Rawson and Aguirre-Urreta 2012 ammonite
sp. nov.