Cerro de La Parva, Agrio Formation, 79m, Neuquen Basin: Late Valanginian, Argentina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Pleuromyidae
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Pleuromya sp.
(Meek 1873)
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
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Ostreoida indet.
Fërussac 1822
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| scattered oysters | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Exogyra couloni
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| 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 Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Valanginian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 1 |
| Key time interval: | Late Valanginian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 139.8 - 132.6 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Mendoza | Formation: | Agrio | Member: | Lower |
| Local section: | Cerro de La Parva | Local bed: | 79 m | ||
| Local order: | top to bottom | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | brown lithified siltstone |
| Lithology description: brownish-weathering hard siltstone | |
| 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 Agrio 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: | 65455 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Aberhan | Enterer: | S. Nurnberg |
| Modifier: | S. Nurnberg | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-09-22 07:12:49 | Last modified: | 2006-12-05 04:19:43 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-09-22 07:12:49 |
| 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] |