Cerro Caicayen 17: Valanginian, Argentina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostreidae indet.
Rafinesque 1815
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Astartidae
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Eriphyla argentina
Burckh and Weaver 1907
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Bivalvia
- Trigoniida
- Myophorellidae
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Steinmanella transitoria
Steinmann 1881
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Bivalvia
- Trigoniida
- Trigoniidae
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Trigonia carinata
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Argentina |
Coordinates: | 39.0° South, 68.0° West (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 38.0° South, 31.2° West |
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
Stage: | Valanginian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 1 |
Key time interval: | Valanginian | ||
Age range of interval: | 139.80000 - 132.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Agrio | Local bed: | 13 | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: approx. 136 m above the base of the formation |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | concretionary "shale" |
Secondary lithology: | shelly/skeletal calcareous packstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: shale with interbedded coquina (some of it sandy, calcareous or silty) also has some calcareous nodules | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 37737 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | E. Leckey |
Modifier: | E. Leckey | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2004-03-22 16:35:18 | Last modified: | 2004-03-22 18:35:18 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-03-22 16:35:18 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
10016. | M. B. Aguirre-Urreta and P. F. Rawson. 1999. Lower Cretaceous ammonites from the Neuquen Basin, Argentina: Viluceras, a new Valanginian subgenus of Olcostephanus. Cretaceous Research 20:343-357 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/M. Clapham] |