KT section Bajada del Jagüel, Neuquén Basin, BJG26 (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Where: Neuquén, Argentina (38.1° S, 68.4° W: paleocoordinates 40.4° S, 56.3° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Jagüel Formation (Malargüe Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• K/T boundary (top of boundary bed) is at 0 m. Beds lumped over 0.50 m. Data from bed/horizon refers to midpoint of sampled beds.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, green, yellow, calcareous mudstone

• mid to outer shelf environment, below normal wave base.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, original calcite, replaced with calcite

Collected by Aberhan, M., Kiessling, W., Scholz, H. in 2003

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: S. Weidemeyer. 2007. Molluscs at the K/Pg boundary in Argentina: Extinction and recovery patterns. unpublished Ph.D. thesis. [W. Kiessling/S. Weidemeyer]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 73961: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sven Weidemeyer on 14.07.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Echinoid plates are reported but not included.
Echinoidea
 Echinoida -
Echinoida "irr" Troschel 1872 sea urchin
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Australoneilo gracilis Wilckens 1905 clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Pteromyrtea sp. Finlay 1926 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
 Pectinida - Limidae
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Phelopteria sp. Stephenson 1953 pearl oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonte vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
Amphidonte mendozana Ihering 1907 oyster
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831