J.Til-3 (A4) Quebrada de Rupasca ( of Argentina)

Where: Jujuy, Argentina (23.6° S, 65.4° W: paleocoordinates 44.7° S, 128.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray limestone and lithified, brown, gray sandstone

• green-gray shale and shaly sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.J. Zunino and E. Mauri

Primary reference: H. J. Harrington and A. F. Leanza. 1957. Ordovician trilobites of Argentina. Department of Geology, University of Kansas Special Publication. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press 1:1-276 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9094: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 22.09.2000

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Taxonomic list

• Primarily trilobite taxonomy and biostrat.
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Trilobita
 Olenida - Olenidae
"Parabolinopsis mariana" = Leptoplastides marianus
"Parabolinopsis mariana" = Leptoplastides marianus Hoek 1912 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Asaphellus catamarcensis
Asaphellus catamarcensis Kobayashi 1935 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Kainella meridionalis
Kainella meridionalis Kobayashi 1935 trilobite