Sepulturas Fm., Cordillera Oriental, Argentina: Volkhov - Arenig, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Neseuretus sp. Hicks 1873
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Hoekaspis sp. Kobayashi 1937
Ogyginus sp. Raymond 1912
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
? Anebolithus sp. Huges and Wright 1970
Bivalvia - Grammysiidae
Cuneamya sp. Hall and Whitfield 1875
Bivalvia - Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiolopsis sp. Hall 1847
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Orthidae
Paralenorthis sp. Havlicek and Branisa 1980
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Hesperonomiidae
Monorthis sp.
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina
Coordinates: 23.0° South, 66.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.4° South, 129.2° West
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 2
*Period:Early/Lower Ordovician *Epoch:Middle Arenig - Late/Upper Arenig
*International age/stage:Middle Arenig - Late/Upper Arenig *Local age/stage:Volkhovian
Key time interval:Volkhov - Arenig
Age range of interval:477.70000 - 467.10000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sepulturas
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: not recorded
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection method comments: JA: marked by Novack-Gottshall without explanation as omitting some genera, some macrofossils, some microfossils, and species names, but apparently complete
Metadata
Database number:8865
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:P. Novack-Gottshall
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-09-02 12:20:28 Last modified:2024-03-31 19:20:48
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:40
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

668. T. M. Sanchez and B.G. Waisfeld. 1995. Benthic assemblages in the northwestern of Gondwana: A test of the Ordovician evolutionary radiation model. In J.D. Cooper, M.L. Droser, S.C. Finney (eds.), Ordovician Odyssey: Short papers for the seventh international symposium on the Ordovician system 409-412 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Wagner]