Espinoza del Diablo: Early/Lower Llanvirn, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rostroconchia - Ribeirioida - Technophoridae
Ribeiria spinosa Babin and Branisa 1987
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
Peelerophon oehlerti (Bergeron 1889)
Bivalvia - Afghanodesmatida - Tironuculidae
Ekaterodonta boliviensis Babin and Branisa 1987
recombined as Natasia boliviensis
Bivalvia - Coxiconchiidae
Coxiconcha sp. Babin 1966
corrected as Coxiconchia
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyx reyesi
original and current combination Asaphus (Ampyx)
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Famatinolithus jujuyensis
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Hoekaspis diablensis
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Neseuretus (Neseuretus) kobayashi (Harrington and Leanza 1957)
recombined as Neseuretus kobayashii
Trilobita - Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Pliomeridius sulcatus
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Jujuy
Coordinates: 23.9° South, 65.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.2° South, 131.4° West
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Middle Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 2-3
Key time interval:Early/Lower Llanvirn Trilobite zone: Hoekaspis diablensis
Age range of interval:468.40000 - 461.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sepulturas
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal,green,red or brown,yellow lithified "shale"
Secondary lithology: grainstone
Lithology description: green-yellow and red-violet shale with occasional anhydrite-rich rose and yellow calcarenite, limestone, and shell beds (coquinas)
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic 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:167379
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-03-13 13:29:19 Last modified:2015-03-13 13:29:19
Access level:the public Released:2015-03-13 13:29:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
635. J. C. Gutierrez-Marco and F. G. Acenolaza. 1992. Ribeiria y Tolmachovia (Mollusca, Rostroconchia) en el Ordovicico inferior de la Cordillera Oriental Argentina. Zentrallblatt für Geologie und Palaeontologie, Teil I: Allgemeine, angewandte, regionale une historische geologie 1991(6):1799-1814 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Wagner]