Cerro de La Parva, Agrio Formation, 18m, Neuquen Basin: Late/Upper Valanginian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
serpulids
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra couloni
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina
Coordinates: 37.3° South, 70.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.4° South, 33.6° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Valanginian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 1
Key time interval:Late/Upper Valanginian
Age range of interval:139.80000 - 132.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Mendoza Formation:Agrio Member:Lower
Local section:Cerro de La Parva Local bed:18 m
Local order:top to bottom
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: coquina of small oysters
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface
Glacial or sequence phase:transgressive
Geology comments: ' A transgressive phase started in mid-Valanginian time with the deposition of black shales and limestones of the Argio Fm.'
'shoreface to offshore paleoenvironments on a storm-dominated, shallow marine ramp' (see PBDB coll. 50185)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:65446
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-09-22 06:52:38 Last modified:2006-12-05 04:12:34
Access level:the public Released:2006-09-22 06:52:38
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

18861. M. B. Aguirre-Urreta. 1998. The ammonites Karakaschiceras and Neohoploceras (Valanginian Neocomitidae) from the Neuquen Basin, West-Central Argentina. Journal of Paleontology 72:39-59 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]