Where: Jujuy, Argentina (23.9° S, 65.6° W: paleocoordinates 41.2° S, 131.4° W)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Hoekaspis diablensis trilobite zone, Sepulturas Formation, Early/Lower Llanvirn (468.0 - 461.1 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, green, yellow shale and grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: JA: marked by Novack-Gottshall without explanation as omitting some genera, some macrofossils, some microfossils, and species names, but apparently complete
Primary reference: J. C. Gutierrez-Marco and F. G. Acenolaza. 1992. Ribeiria y Tolmachovia (Mollusca, Rostroconchia) en el Ordovicico inferior de la Cordillera Oriental Argentina. Zentrallblatt für Geologie und Palaeontologie, Teil I: Allgemeine, angewandte, regionale une historische geologie 1991(6):1799-1814 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 167379: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 13.03.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Ampyx reyesi trilobite | |
Famatinolithus jujuyensis trilobite | |
Hoekaspis diablensis trilobite | |
Pliomeridius sulcatus trilobite | |
"Neseuretus (Neseuretus) kobayashi" = Neseuretus kobayashii
"Neseuretus (Neseuretus) kobayashi" = Neseuretus kobayashii Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite | |
Rostroconchia | |
Ribeiria spinosa Babin and Branisa 1987 | |
Gastropoda | |
Peelerophon oehlerti Bergeron 1889 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Ekaterodonta boliviensis" = Natasia boliviensis
"Ekaterodonta boliviensis" = Natasia boliviensis Babin and Branisa 1987 clam | |
"Coxiconcha sp." = Coxiconchia
"Coxiconcha sp." = Coxiconchia Babin 1966 clam |