Cardonal Group, Quebrada Colorado, Argentina ( of Argentina)

Where: Argentina (24.0° S, 66.0° W: paleocoordinates 44.1° S, 128.3° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)

• Cardonal Group

Environment/lithology: foreshore; lithified, bioturbated sandstone

• sandy quartzites with bilobites trace fossils

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: H. J. Harrington. 1937. On some Ordovician fossils from Northern Argentina. Geological Magazine 74(3):97-124 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8903: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 02.09.2000

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Olenida - Olenidae
"Parabolinopsis sp." = Leptoplastides
"Parabolinopsis sp." = Leptoplastides Raw 1908 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Kainella sp.
Kainella sp. Walcott 1925 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Eoorthidae
? Eoorthis sp.
? Eoorthis sp. Walcott 1908
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
? Lingulella sp.
? Lingulella sp. Salter 1866