Vega El Volcan (Carboniferous of Argentina)

Where: San Juan, Argentina (29.3° S, 68.6° W: paleocoordinates 58.6° S, 74.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Volcan Formation, Mississippian (358.9 - 323.2 Ma)

• "Evidence afforded by the brachiopods suggests a Lower Carboniferous age for the Volcan formation, although the scarcity of the material does not permit an exact age determination."

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified wackestone and lithified limestone

• "The Volcan Formation is a 500 meter thick succession starting with continental deposits containing plant fragments, grading into an upper section of graywackes, limestones and mudstones containing a marine fauna from which the brachiopods were taken."

Collected by G. Farque

Primary reference: A. J. Amos. 1958. Some Lower Carboniferous brachiopods from the Volcan Formation, San Juan, Argentina. Journal of Paleontology 32(5):838-845 [N. Heim/N. Heim]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74058: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 19.07.2007

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Taxonomic list

• "These [brachiopods] are associated with gastropods, pelecypods, cephalopods, conulariids and ostracods."
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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Paranorellidae
Sanjuania dorsisulcata n. gen. n. sp.
Sanjuania dorsisulcata n. gen. n. sp.
 Spiriferida - Reticulariidae
Reticularia punillana n. sp.