Azul Pampa - AzulPampa1: Furongian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Agnostida - Agnostidae
Micragnostus vilonii Harrington and Leanza 1957
1 individual
Trilobita - Olenida - Olenidae
Angelina hyeronimi (Kayser 1876)
22 individuals
Parabolina (Neoparabolina) frequens (Barrande 1868)
20 individuals
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Jujuy
Coordinates: 23.0° South, 65.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.5° South, 127.8° 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 order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
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:115423
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:S. Kolbe
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-09-02 01:09:17 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2011-09-02 01:09:17
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]