Where: Argentina (22.8° S, 65.2° W: paleocoordinates 45.5° S, 128.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kainella teiichii trilobite zone, Santa Rosita Formation, Tremadocian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)
• Kainella teiichii overlaps with upper Cordylodus angulatus conodont zone and lower Paltodus deltifer conodont zone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, bioturbated, fine-grained, gray, green, calcareous sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: M. F. Tortello and S. B. Esteban. 2016. Early Ordovician trilobites from the Iruya area (Cordillera Oriental, northwestern Argentina) and their stratigraphic significance. Journal of Paleontology 90(5):923-958 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 208291: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 26.03.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Leptoplastides marianus Hoek 1912 trilobite | |
Asaphellus clarksoni Tortello and Esteban 2016 trilobite | |
Kainella teiichii Vaccari and Waisfeld 2010 trilobite | |
Artiopoda | |
Gymnagnostus kobayashii Tortello and Esteban 2016 |