Where: Mendoza, Argentina (34.5° S, 70.0° W: paleocoordinates 31.8° S, 32.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: La Manga Formation, Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)
Environment/lithology: gray, blue limestone and marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: H. Parent. 2006. Oxfordian and late Callovian ammonite faunas and biostratigraphy of the Neuquen-Mendoza and Tarapaca Basins (Jurassic, Ammonoidea, Western South-America). Boletin del Instituto de Fisiografia y Geologia 76(1-2):1-70 [J. Alroy/J. Martinelli]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136711: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Julieta Martinelli on 02.12.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Passendorferia sp. Brochwicz-Lewinski 1973 ammonite
Perisphinctes (Kranaosphinctes) sp. ammonite |