Onshore section, Suri Fm., Chaschuil and Sierra de Narvaez, Argentina: Arenig, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Hesperonomiidae
Hesperonomia sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Monorthis sp.
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Orthidae
Paralenorthis sp. Havlicek and Branisa 1980
Orthambonites sp. Pander 1830
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plectorthidae
Desmorthis sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Giraldiellidae
Famatinorthis sp.
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Heterorthidae
Incorthis sp. Havlíček and Branisa 1980
Rhynchonellata - Protorthida - Skenidiidae
Skenidioides sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
Strophomenata - Billingsellida - Polytoechiidae
Tritoechia sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Cephalopoda - Endocerida - Proterocameroceratidae
Proterocameroceras sp. Ruedemann 1905
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Ophiletidae
Ozarkispira sp. Walcott 1924
Bivalvia
Trigonodus sp.
    = Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758
Hendy 2008
Trigonodus = Middle-Late Triassic
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Modiolopsidae
Dipleurodonta sp. Isberg 1934
Bivalvia - Actinodontida - Cycloconchidae
Catamarcaia sp.
Bivalvia - Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Redonia sp. Rouault 1851
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Merlinia sp. Fortey and Owens 1978
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Neseuretus sp. Hicks 1873
Trilobita - Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Colpocoryphe sp. Novak and Perner 1918
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Annamitella sp. Mansuy 1920
unclassified
Baltonoidus sp.
Chionoconus sp.
Jumadontus sp.
Conodonta - Protopanderodontida - Protopanderodontidae
Protopanderodus sp. Lindström 1971
Conodonta - Protopanderodontida - Oneotodontidae
Semiacontiodus sp.
Conodonta - Prioniodontida
Erraticodon sp. Dzik 1978
Conodonta - Prioniodontida - Acodontidae
Tropodus sp. Kennedy 1980
see common names

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
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:planar lamination,shelly/skeletal,gray,green lithified sandstone
Secondary lithology: "shale"
Lithology description: coquina beds in fine to medium-grained gray-green laminated sandstone with intercalations of shale and occasionally volcaniclastics
Environment:shoreface
Taphonomy
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
Database number:8875
Authorizer:A. Miller, A. Hendy Enterer:P. Novack-Gottshall, A. Hendy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-09-02 13:03:36 Last modified:2007-02-21 19:26:07
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:40
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]

Secondary references:

26349 A. J. W. Hendy. 2008. Personal opinions and reidentification of pre-Cenozoic Mollusca. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]