Quebrada Vizcacha - Vz1: Furongian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Pseudoharpatagnostus corrugatus
3 individuals
Agnostida - Agnostidae
Gymnagnostus bolivianus
3 individuals
[entered as Gymagnostus bolivianus]
Trilobita - Olenida - Olenidae
Parabolina (Neoparabolina) frequens (Barrande 1868)
147 individuals
var. argentina
Parabolinella informal sp. A
3 individuals
Parabolinella coelatifrons Harrington and Leanza 1957
15 individuals
Plicatolina scalpa
2 individuals
Angelina hyeronimi (Kayser 1876)
7 individuals
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Jujuy
Coordinates: 23.2° South, 65.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.8° South, 127.5° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Cambrian Epoch: Furongian
10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 5
Key time interval: Furongian Zone:  Parabolina (N.) frequens argentina
Age range of interval: 497 - 485.4 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lampazar
Local section:Vizcacha Local bed:Vz1
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: About 37 m above the base of the section.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:offshore
Geology comments: Fair-weather suspension-fallout deposition.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Reference focuses on trilobites.
Metadata
Database number:115415
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:S. Kolbe
Modifier:S. Kolbe Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-09-02 00:59:58 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2011-09-02 00:59:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

37370. D. Balseiro, B. G. Waisfield, and N. E. Vaccari. 2011. Paleoecological dynamics of Furongian (Late Cambrian) trilobite-dominated communities from northwestern Argentina. Palaios 26:484-499 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]