Azul Pampa, AP-3 ( of Argentina)

Where: Jujuy, Argentina (23.0° S, 65.4° W: paleocoordinates 45.3° S, 128.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kainella meridionalis trilobite zone, Azul Pampa Formation (Santa Victoria Group), Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)

• At base of formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone

• reddish pink sandstones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. L. Benedetto. 2007. New Upper Cambrian-Tremadoc rhynchonelliformean brachiopods from northwestern Argentina: evolutionary trends and early diversification of plectorthoideans in the Andean Gondwana. Journal of Paleontology 81(2):261-285 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 193004: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 01.05.2018

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Giraldiellidae
Kvania azulpampensis Benedetto 2007
 Orthida - Nanorthidae
"Nanorthis calderensis" = Gondwanorthis calderensis
"Nanorthis calderensis" = Gondwanorthis calderensis Benedetto 2007