LA g, Las Aguaditas North Section, ~5.5 km west and ~9.5 km south of San José da Jáchal (Ordovician of Argentina)

Where: San Juan, Argentina (30.3° S, 68.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° S, 132.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Las Aguaditas Formation, Costonian (458.4 - 457.2 Ma)

• Nemagraptus gracilis zone

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified marl and claystone

• marlstones in slumps (Fig. 2).

Primary reference: B.D.E. Chatterton, G. D. Edgecombe, N.E. Vaccari and B.G. Waisfeld. 1997. Ontogeny and Relationships of the Ordovician Odontopleurid Trilobite Ceratocara, with New Species from Argentina and New York. Journal of Paleontology 71(1):108-135 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 70624: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 30.03.2007

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Taxonomic list

• One trilobite species only.
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Trilobita
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Ceratocara argentina
Ceratocara argentina Chatterton et al. 1997 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Platycalymene trapezoidalis
Platycalymene trapezoidalis Baldis and Pothe 1995 trilobite