Quebrada Lari, Puna region (Ordovician of Argentina)

Where: Salta, Argentina (24.1° S, 67.3° W: paleocoordinates 43.5° S, 127.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kvania lariensis trilobite zone, Las Vicunas Formation, Tremadoc (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

• lower part of Las Vicunas Formation, a latest Cambrian age cannot be rejected

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified shale

• 5 m of siliceous green shales

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. L. Benedetto. 2007. New Upper Cambrian-Tremadoc rhynchonelliformean brachiopods from northwestern Argentina: evolutionary trends and early diversification of plectorthoideans in the Andean Gondwana. Journal of Paleontology 81(2):261-285 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74342: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.08.2007

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Giraldiellidae
Kvania lariensis n. sp. Benedetto 2007