Where: Argentina (24.0° S, 65.0° W: paleocoordinates 49.3° S, 128.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Lipeon Formation, Wenlock to Wenlock (433.4 - 423.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; bioturbated, ferruginous, micaceous, gray siltstone and sandstone
Collection methods: Table 5 (included separately because not all elements contained in collections 25060 and 25061).
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 25062: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 27.08.2002, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Graptolithina | |
Graptolithina indet. graptolite | |
Cephalopoda | |
Dawsonoceras sp. Hyatt 1884 | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bellerophontoidea indet. M'Coy 1851 snail | |
Loxonematidae indet. Koken 1889 snail | |
Murchisoniidae indet. Koken 1896 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculites sp. Conrad 1841 clam | |
Myoplusia sulcata clam | |
Ctenodonta sp. Salter 1852 clam | |
"Nuculoida indet." = Nuculida
"Nuculoida indet." = Nuculida Dall 1889 clam | |
Praenucula plicata clam | |
Deceptrix elongata clam | |
Dualina sp. Barrande 1881 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Harringtonina sp." = Anabaia
"Harringtonina sp." = Anabaia | |
Strophomenata | |
? Protochonetes sp. Muir-Wood 1962 | |
Leangella sp. Opik 1933 | |
Hyolitha | |
Hyolithida indet. Mathew 1962 | |
Tentaculitida indet. Ljaschenko 1955 | |
Trilobita | |
Anacaenaspis sp. Bruton 1967 trilobite | |
Lichas cf. affinis Angelin 1854 trilobite | |
Trimerus (Trimerus) grandis trilobite
Trimerus (Trimerus) flexuosus trilobite | |
Diacalymene subandina trilobite
Calymene ferrifera trilobite
Flexicalymene sp. Shirley 1936 trilobite | |
Dalmanites sudamericanus trilobite
Dalmanites transglabelaris trilobite | |
Ananaspis sp. Campbell 1967 trilobite
Zaplaops zaplensis trilobite | |
Australoacaste palpalensis trilobite
Jujuyops nonoctubrensis trilobite | |
Anthozoa | |
Rugosa indet. horn coral | |
Pleurodictyum sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral | |
Australonucula | |