Quebrada Rincón Blanco, Río del Peñón, horizon 4: Bashkirian, Argentina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Lingulata
- Lingulida
- Discinidae
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Orbiculoidea sp.
d'Orbigny 1847
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Geography
| Country: | Argentina | State/province: | La Rioja |
| Coordinates: | 28.6° South, 68.7° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 48.3° South, 63.8° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Pennsylvanian |
| Stage: | Bashkirian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 4 |
| Key time interval: | Bashkirian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 323.20000 - 315.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Río del Peñón | Member: | Middle | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Middle part of middle member; upper Bashkirian according to U-Pb radiometric dates in Gulbranson et al. (2010). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified siltstone |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: Low-sedimentation marginal marine prodeltaic environment allowed for formation of shell pavement. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Repository: Fundación Miguel Lillo, Instituto de Paleontología, Sección Paleoinvertebrados (IPI). | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 136525 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-11-29 14:15:32 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-11-29 14:15:32 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 27507. | G. A. Cisterna and T. Simanauskas. 2000. Brachiopods from the Rio del Penon Formation, Rio Blanco Basin, Upper Palaeozoic of Argentina. Revista Española de Paleontologia 15(2):129-151 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |