Where: La Rioja, Argentina (28.6° S, 68.7° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 46.0° S, 64.0° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Member (Río del Peñón Formation), Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)
• Upper part of middle member; lower Moscovian according to U-Pb radiometric dates in Gulbranson et al. (2010).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: Repository: Fundación Miguel Lillo, Instituto de Paleontología, Sección Paleoinvertebrados (IPI).
Primary reference: G. A. Cisterna and T. Simanauskas. 2000. Brachiopods from the Rio del Penon Formation, Rio Blanco Basin, Upper Palaeozoic of Argentina. Revista Española de Paleontologia 15(2):129-151 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136527: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
"Trigonotreta riojanensis" = Pericospira riojanensis
"Trigonotreta riojanensis" = Pericospira riojanensis Lech and Aceñolaza 1987 | |
Strophomenata | |
Costatumulus "sp. B" Waterhouse 1983 | |
Kochiproductus riojanus Leanza 1948 | |
Tivertonia jachalensis Amos 1961 |