Mogotes Azules (Silurian of Argentina)

Where: San Juan, Argentina (30.3° S, 68.7° W: paleocoordinates 34.3° S, 135.6° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: La Chilca Formation, Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)

• Figure 2.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: CEGH specimens

Primary reference: J. Benedetto and L. R. M. Cocks. 2009. Early Silurian (Rhuddanian) brachiopods from the Argentine Precordillera and their biogeographic affinities. Ameghiniana 46(2):241-253 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152407: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 20.11.2013

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Taxonomic list

• Brachiopods and graptolites.
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Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Rhynchospirinidae
Homoeospira carinata, Homoeospira antiqua
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Rostricellula sp.
Rostricellula sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1942
 Rhynchonellida - Leptocoeliidae
? Anabaia sp.
 Orthida - Proschizophoriidae
Cordatomyonia umangoensis
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
? Dedzetina "sp. nov."
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
"Eostrophedonta (Aphanomena) chilcaensis" = Eostropheodonta chilcaensis
"Eostrophedonta (Aphanomena) chilcaensis" = Eostropheodonta chilcaensis Benedetto 1995
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina reliqua