Las Coloradas es-1 (290-300) (Cretaceous to of Argentina)

Where: Chubut, Argentina (42.8° S, 68.3° W: paleocoordinates 45.3° S, 55.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Lefipán Formation, Campanian to Campanian (83.6 - 61.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, massive, gray, green, argillaceous claystone

• Middle-external platform environment
• Claystone, dark greenish gray with massive structure, irregular fracture, not very compact

Size class: microfossils

Collected by YPF in 2011

Collection methods: core, chemical,

Primary reference: A. Missotti. 2022. Foraminíferos paleocenos del pozo YPF-CH-LCOL-ES-1 (Las Coloradas), Cuenca de Cañadón Asfalto: sistemática y aspectos paleoecológicos. 1-101 [E. Vlachos/F. Aspromonte]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 231981: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Franco Aspromonte on 10.10.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Stilostomellidae
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Pyramidulina latejugata Gümbel 1870
Shells
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Cancrisidae
Gyroidinoides subangulata Plummer 1927
Shells
 Rotaliida - Gavelinellidae
Gavelinella midwayensis Plummer 1927
Shells
 Rotaliida - Anomalinidae
Anomalinoides sp. Brotzen 1942
Shells
 Rotaliida - Alabaminidae
Alabamina midwayensis Brotzen 1948
Shells
 Rotaliida - Cibicididae
Cibicidoides ? alleni Plummer 1927
Shells
unclassified
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Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754
Spines
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Valves and carapace