Where: Jujuy, Argentina (24.8° S, 65.4° W: paleocoordinates 43.6° S, 129.5° W)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Hunnegraptus copiosus graptolite zone, Santa Rosita Formation (Santa Victoria Group), Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)
• Was San Bernardo, a misspelling of Santa Bernardo and was Arenig (2017-05-19; PJW).
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, bioturbated, green, argillaceous shale and sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
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: J. C. Gutierrez-Marco and F. G. Acenolaza. 1992. Ribeiria y Tolmachovia (Mollusca, Rostroconchia) en el Ordovicico inferior de la Cordillera Oriental Argentina. Zentrallblatt für Geologie und Palaeontologie, Teil I: Allgemeine, angewandte, regionale une historische geologie 1991(6):1799-1814 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 8882: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 02.09.2000, edited by Uta Merkel and Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Pterobranchia | |
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite | |
Lingulata | |
Obolus sp. Eichwald 1829 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Nanorthis sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936 | |
""Nanorthis" grandis" = Tarfaya grandis
""Nanorthis" grandis" = Tarfaya grandis Harrington 1938 | |
Rostroconchia | |
Tolmachovia andina n. sp.
Tolmachovia andina n. sp. Harrington 1938 | |
Gastropoda | |
Peelerophon oehlerti Bergeron 1889 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Ctenodonta sp. Salter 1852 clam | |
Trilobita | |
Nannopeltis sp. Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite | |
Sanbernardaspis pygacantha, "Megalaspis sp." = Megistaspis, Kayseraspis asaphelloides, Thysanopyge sp.
Sanbernardaspis pygacantha trilobite
"Megalaspis sp." = Megistaspis Jaanusson 1956 trilobite
Kayseraspis asaphelloides Harrington 1938 trilobite
Thysanopyge sp. Kayser 1898 trilobite | |
Ostracoda | |
Saltite sp. Rossi de García and Proserpio 1976 ostracod |