Las Aguaditas. Basal Punta Algarrobo member (Ordovician of Argentina)

Where: Argentina (29.1° S, 68.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° S, 132.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Paraglossograptus tentaculatus graptolite zone, Punta Algarrobo Member (Las Aguaditas Formation), Darriwilian (467.3 - 458.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, sandy, calcareous limestone and claystone

• limestone, sometimes sandy, brecia, and calcareous, marly shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. A. J. Baldis. 1995. Ordovician trilobite zonation in western Argentina. Ordovician Odyssey: Short Papers for the 7th International Symposium on the Ordovician System 125-128 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 210668: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 12.06.2020

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Kainisiniella cuyana Baldis and González 1987 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
 Harpetida - Harpetidae
Australoharpes precordilleranus Baldis and Gonzalez 1986 trilobite
 Olenida - Olenidae
"Bienvillia turneri" = Porterfieldia turneri
"Bienvillia turneri" = Porterfieldia turneri Baldis and Poethe 1995 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
"Neptunagnostella superba" = Geragnostus
"Neptunagnostella superba" = Geragnostus
Conodonta
 Prioniodontida - Polyplacognathidae
Eoplacognathus suecicus Bergström 1971 conodont
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Glossograptidae
Paraglossograptus tentaculatus Hall 1858 graptolite