Locality 18, section XII, horizon 2, Cerro Tricolor (Jurassic of Argentina)

Where: Mendoza, Argentina (35.5° S, 70.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° S, 31.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Malarguensis ammonoid zone, Cuyo Group, Concavum (175.6 - 171.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Gerth

• Repository: Palaeontologische Institut, Bonn

Primary reference: G. E. G. Westermann and A. C. Riccardi. 1982. Ammonoid fauna from the Early Middle Jurassic of Mendoza Province, Argentina. Journal of Paleontology 56(1):11-41 [S. Peters/S. Peters/O. Alfaro]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63849: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Shanan Peters on 22.08.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
"Leptosphinctes (Praeleptosphinctes) jaworskii n. sp." = Praeleptosphinctes jaworskii
"Leptosphinctes (Praeleptosphinctes) jaworskii n. sp." = Praeleptosphinctes jaworskii Westermann 1956 ammonite
Morphoceras nov. spec. cf. defrancei in Jaworski 1926