Where: Argentina (43.8° S, 69.9° W: paleocoordinates 57.2° S, 81.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mojon de Hierro Formation (Tepuel Group), Bashkirian to Bashkirian (323.2 - 307.0 Ma)
• 5th fossiliferous horizon. Costatumulus amosi zone.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone and lithified conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: C. R. Gonzalez. 2006. Lower Permian bivalves from central Patagonia, Argentina. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 80(2):130-155 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 64622: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.09.2006, edited by Phil Novack-Gottshall
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
"Glabrocingulum argentinus" = Glabrocingulum (Stenozone) argentinus
"Glabrocingulum argentinus" = Glabrocingulum (Stenozone) argentinus Reed 1927 snail | |
"Sinuitina gonzalezi" = Sinuitina (Spirilira) gonzalezi
"Sinuitina gonzalezi" = Sinuitina (Spirilira) gonzalezi Sabattini 1980 snail | |
Euphemites sp. Warthin 1930 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Promytilus patagonicus mussel
? Promytilus sp. Newell 1942 mussel | |
Aviculopecten sp. M'Coy 1851 scallop | |
Cephalopoda | |
Sueroceras irregulare nautiloid | |
Strophomenata | |
Costatumulus amosi Taboada 1998 | |
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830 | |
Lissochonetes sp. Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Nudirostra cuyana" = Leiorhynchus
"Nudirostra cuyana" = Leiorhynchus | |
Lingulata | |
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847 |