Where: Argentina (30.3° S, 68.8° W: paleocoordinates 48.3° S, 126.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Los Espejos Formation, Pridoli (423.0 - 419.2 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; green sandstone
Collection methods: Coquinas 17 and 21 in Table 2.
Primary reference: T. M. Sanchez, B. G. Waisfeld, and J. L. Benedetto. 1991. Lithofacies, taphonomy, and brachiopod assemblages in the Silurian of western Argentina: A review of Malvinokaffric Realm communities. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 4(4):307-329 [M. Foote/M. Foote/O. Alfaro]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 25057: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 27.08.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
? Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Loxonema sp. Phillips 1841 snail | |
"Bellerophontacea indet." = Bellerophontoidea
"Bellerophontacea indet." = Bellerophontoidea M'Coy 1851 snail | |
Tentaculitida indet. Ljaschenko 1955 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Harringtonina acutiplicata" = Anabaia
"Harringtonina acutiplicata" = Anabaia | |
Strophomenata | |
Castellaroina fascifer Kayser 1897 | |
Trilobita | |
Phacops argentinus trilobite | |
Trimerus kayseri trilobite |