SH20 - El Salado Sur: Early/Lower Hauterivian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Ptychomya sp.
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
? Eriphyla sp. Gabb 1864
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Hoplitocrioceras gentilii Giovine 1950
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Neuquen
Coordinates: 38.3° South, 70.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.8° South, 33.9° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Hauterivian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 2
Key time interval:Early/Lower Hauterivian Ammonoid zone: Hoplitocrioceras gentilii
Age range of interval:132.60000 - 125.77000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Agrio Member:Lower Agrio
Local section:El Salado Sur Local bed:42 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: From SH20 (0.1 m thick). From Hoplitocrioceras gentilii subzone, Lower Agrio Member, Agrio Formation, early Hauterivian. KEY TO BED NUMBERING: Stratigraphic heights not given on stratigraphic column in Figure 2, but were calculated based on the scale given in same figure. Base of section corresponds to 0 m.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Very thin, rubbly-weathering siltstone.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: Material described in this paper are stored in the palaeontological collections of the University of Buenos Aires (CPBA), the Natural Sciences Museum of La Plata (MLP), and the Geological Survey, Buenos Aires (SGN).
Taxonomic list comments:List doesn't appear to be exhaustive for each horizon. Ammonite nomenclature should be solid given paper is a taxonomic revision of Hoplitocerioceras.
Metadata
Database number:50576
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-05-17 19:54:00 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2005-05-17 19:54:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13543. M. B. Aguirre-Urreta and P. F. Rawson. 2001. Lower Cretaceous ammonites from the Neuquen Basin, Argentina: the Hauterivian neocomitid genus Hoplitocrioceras (Giovine, 1950). Cretaceous Research 22:201-218 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]