Where: Argentina (28.0° S, 68.0° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° S, 129.9° W)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Suri Formation, Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, green 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: N. E. Vaccari and B.G. Waisfeld. 1994. Nuevos trilobites de la Formacion Suri (Ordovicico temprano) en la region de Chaschuil, Provincia de Catamarca: Implicancias bioestratigraficas. Ameghiniana 31(1):73-86 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 8875: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 02.09.2000, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Trilobita | |
Merlinia sp. Fortey and Owens 1987 trilobite | |
Colpocoryphe sp. Novak and Perner 1918 trilobite | |
Neseuretus sp. Hicks 1873 trilobite | |
Annamitella sp. Mansuy 1920 trilobite | |
Strophomenata | |
Tritoechia sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Skenidioides sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931 | |
Incorthis sp. Havlíček and Branisa 1980 | |
Desmorthis sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936 | |
Paralenorthis sp. Havlicek and Branisa 1980
Orthambonites sp. Pander 1830 | |
Hesperonomia sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936 | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Dipleurodonta sp. Isberg 1934 clam | |
Catamarcaia sp. clam | |
Redonia sp. Rouault 1851 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Ozarkispira sp." = Ophileta
"Ozarkispira sp." = Ophileta Vanuxem 1842 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Proterocameroceras sp. Ruedemann 1905 | |
Conodonta | |
Semiacontiodus sp. conodont | |
Protopanderodus sp. Lindström 1971 conodont | |
Tropodus sp. Kennedy 1980 conodont | |
Erraticodon sp. Dzik 1978 conodont |