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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Kvania lariensis n. sp.
Kvania lariensis n. sp. Benedetto 2007 |