Also known as Offshore section, Suri fm., Chaschuil and Sierra de Narvaez, Argentina

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)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray, green shale and sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 8876: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 02.09.2000

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