Perfil Cerro Bombero: CB8 (45 cm) (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Where: Rio Negro, Argentina (39.2° S, 67.4° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° S, 55.3° W)

When: Jagüel Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; sandy lithology not reported

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: cast

Collected by JUAN PABLO PÉREZ PANERA, AGUSTINA MISSOTTI, MICAELA CHAUMEIL RODRÍGUEZ, JUAN ISON, LYDIA CALVO MARCILESE, ANA PAULA CARIGNANO, LAUTARO LOYZA-CANNATÁ, CLÉMENTINE COLPAERT, NICOLAS PIGE, ARIEL FABIÁN CARDILLO, DANIEL CABAZA and MARIANELLA TALEVI; reposited in the MLP

Collection methods: surface (in situ), smear slide

Primary reference: J. P. Pérez Panera. 2024. End-Cretaceous calcareous nannoplankton and response to the K/Pg event in the Kawas epicontinental sea. Insights from Cerro Bombero section, Jagüel formation, Neuquén Basin. Libro de Resúmenes de la Reunión de Comunicaciones de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 2024:221-222more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 237651: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Maria Maldonado on 13.12.2024

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Biozone CC26
Coccolithophyceae
 Arkhangelskiales - Arkhangelskiellaceae
Arkhangelskiella maastrichtiensis
1 specimen. Cretaceous.
 Podorhabdales - Axopodorhabdaceae
Cribrosphaerella ehrenbergii Arkhangelsky 1912
1 specimen. Cretaceous.
 Podorhabdales - Biscutaceae
Biscutum constans Górka 1957
3 specimens. Cretaceous.
 Arkhangelskiales - Arkhangelskiellaceae
Arkhangelskiella cymbiformis Vekshina 1959
5 specimens. Cretaceous.
 Arkhangelskiales - Kamptneriaceae
Gartnerago obliquum Stradner 1963
4 specimens. Cretaceous.
 Eiffellithales - Eiffellithaceae
Eiffellithus turriseiffelii Deflandre 1954
3 specimens. Cretaceous.
Eiffellithus gorkae Reinhardt 1965
4 specimens. Cretaceous.
 Eiffellithales - Chiastozygaceae
Ahmuellerella octoradiata Górka 1957
4 specimens. Cretaceous.
Chiastozygus litterarius Górka 1957
1 specimen. Cretaceous.
Bukrylithus ambiguus Black 1971
3 specimens. Cretaceous.