Where: Argentina (31.6° S, 68.7° W: paleocoordinates 42.5° S, 125.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Soldano Member (La Laja Formation), Solvan (510.2 - 504.5 Ma)
• Early Middle Cambrian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified lime mudstone and lithified packstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: M. S. Beresi and J. K. Rigby. 1994. Sponges and chancelloriids from the Cambrian of western Argentina. Journal of Paleontology 68(2):208-217 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 56545: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 21.11.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Coeloscleritophora | |
Chancelloria eros Walcott 1920 | |
Hexactinellida | |
Kiwetinokia ? utahensis Walcott 1920 glass sponge | |
Demospongiae | |
Anthaspidellidae indet. Miller 1889 demosponge | |
Trilobita | |
Kootenia sp. Walcott 1899 trilobite | |
Hyolitha | |
Hyolithes sp. d'Eichwald 1840 |