ME(1)-8, Manzano Escondido, Sierra Vaca Muerta: Late/Upper Callovian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Sphaeroceratidae
Eurycephalitinae indet. Thierry 1976
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
Peltoceras cf. convexum (Hillebrandt 1995)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceratidae indet. Neumayr 1875
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Perisphinctidae indet. Steinmann 1890
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Parkinsoniidae
? Paracuariceras sp. Schindewolf 1963
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
? Concavites sp. Jeannet 1951
Hecticoceratinae indet. Spath 1925
Hecticoceras (Sublunuloceras) cf. lairense (Waagen 1875)
recombined as Hecticoceras lairense
(1 measurement)
Hecticoceras (Sublunuloceras) cf. virguloides (Gerard and Contaut 1936)
(1 measurement)
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
"Lucina" sp. Bruguière 1797
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Neuquen
Coordinates: 38.6° South, 70.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.9° South, 31.7° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Callovian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Callovian Ammonoid zone: Patagoniense
Age range of interval:165.30000 - 161.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lotena
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 0.20 m bed of nodular greenish gray marl in nodules, yellow weathered.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:nodular,gray,green lithified marl
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,replaced with limonite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:158522
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-07-21 17:32:01 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2014-07-21 17:32:01
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

43327. H. Parent. 2006. Oxfordian and late Callovian ammonite faunas and biostratigraphy of the Neuquen-Mendoza and Tarapaca Basins (Jurassic, Ammonoidea, Western South-America). Boletin del Instituto de Fisiografia y Geologia 76(1-2):1-70 [J. Alroy/J. Martinelli]