El Salado Sur SO8, Agrio Formation, Neuquén Basin, Neuquén: Early Hauterivian, Argentina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Neocomitidae
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Neocomitidae indet.
Salfeld 1921
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Argentina |
Coordinates: | 38.2° South, 70.1° West (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 37.7° South, 33.9° West |
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early Cretaceous |
Stage: | Hauterivian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 2 |
Key time interval: | Early Hauterivian | ||
Age range of interval: | 132.6 - 125.77 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Agrio | Member: | Lower | ||
Local section: | El Salado Sur | Local bed: | SO8 | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Holcoptychites neuquensis zone, Olcostephanus (O.) laticosta subzone |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified "shale" |
Lithology description: grey, silty shales; with a very thin silty streak with scattered nodules, and large, scattered lenticular oyster debris coquinas; 14.8 m | |
Environment: | transition zone/lower shoreface |
Geology comments: shoreface to offshore paleoenvironments on a storm-dominated, shallow marine ramp |
Taphonomy
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 61711 | ||
Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2006-06-23 03:32:30 | Last modified: | 2006-06-23 06:32:30 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-06-23 03:32:28 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
17762. | M. B. Aguirre-Urreta and P. F. Rawson. 2001. Lower Cretaceous ammonites from the Neuquén Basin, Argentina: a Hauterivian Olcostephanus fauna. Cretaceous Research 22(6):763-778 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |