Type Section Suri Formation. 0 - 20 meters: Arenig, Argentina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Trilobita
- Proetida
- Telephinidae
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Carolinites genacinaca
Ross 1951
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Oopsites sp.
Fortey 1975
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Trilobita
- Trinucleida
- Raphiophoridae
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Ampyx tinogastaensis
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Asaphidae
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Merlinia zupaya
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Geography
| Country: | Argentina |
| Coordinates: | 28.0° South, 68.0° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.0° South, 129.9° West |
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | ||
| 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 2 | ||
| *Period: | Early/Lower Ordovician | *Epoch: | Arenig |
| Key time interval: | Arenig | ||
| Age range of interval: | 477.7 - 468.4 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Suri | ||
| Local section: | Suri Type Section | Local bed: | 0 - 20 m |
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray,green lithified "shale" |
| Secondary lithology: | sandstone |
| Lithology description: gray-green limolites, well-bioturbated and intercalated with fine-grained sandstone | |
| Environment: | offshore |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic 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
| Also known as: | Offshore section, Suri fm., Chaschuil and Sierra de Narvaez, Argentina | ||
| Database number: | 8876 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | P. Novack-Gottshall |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2000-09-02 13:03:44 | Last modified: | 2020-06-14 18:43:55 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-09-02 13:03:44 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 672. | N. E. Vaccari and B.G. Waisfeld. 1994. Nuevos trilobites de la Formacion Suri (Ordovicico temprano) en la region de Chaschuil, Provincia de Catamarca: Implicancias bioestratigraficas. Ameghiniana 31(1):73-86 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/J. Alroy] |