Where: Argentina (29.0° S, 68.0° W: paleocoordinates 38.2° S, 130.5° W)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Suri Formation, Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, green, calcareous sandstone and shale
Collection methods: JA: marked by Novack-Gottshall without explanation as omitting some genera, some macrofossils, some microfossils, and species names, but apparently complete
Primary reference: R. Levy and F.E. Nullo. 1980. Braqiopodos Ordovicicos de la Sierra del Famatina (Formacion Suri), Provincia de la Rioja, Republica Argentina. Actas del segundo congreso Argentino de paleontologia y bioestratigrafia y primer congreso Latinoamericano de paleontologia 1:37-47 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 8783: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 29.08.2000, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Hesperonomia sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936 | |
Cyrtonotella sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931 | |
Mimella sp. Cooper 1930 | |
Incorthis sp. Havlíček and Branisa 1980 | |
Skenidioides sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931 | |
Strophomenata | |
? Clitambonites sp. Pander 1830 | |
Tritoechia sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936 | |
Lingulata | |
Obolus sp. Eichwald 1829 | |
Gastropoda | |
Bellerophontoidea indet. M'Coy 1851 snail | |
? Ophileta sp. Vanuxem 1842 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Ctenodonta sp. Salter 1852 clam | |
Catamarcaia sp. clam | |
Redonia sp. Rouault 1851 clam | |
"Cosmogoniophorina sp." = Cosmogoniophorina
"Cosmogoniophorina sp." = Cosmogoniophorina Isberg 1934 clam | |
Trilobita | |
Hungioides sp. Kobayashi 1936 trilobite | |
Merlinia sp. Fortey and Owens 1978 trilobite
Suriaspis sp. Acenolaza and Rabano 1990 trilobite
Asaphus sp. Brongniart 1822 trilobite | |
Lonchodomas sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite
Ampyx sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite | |
Famatinolithus sp. Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite | |
Pliomera sp. Angelin 1845 trilobite | |
Neseuretus sp. Hicks 1873 trilobite | |
Annamitella sp. Mansuy 1920 trilobite | |
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite | |
Oopsites sp. Fortey 1975 trilobite
Carolinites sp. Kobayashi 1940 trilobite |