Arroyo Las Manzanas (Jurassic of Argentina)

Where: Argentina (37.6° S, 70.4° W: paleocoordinates 35.8° S, 32.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Corongoceras alternans ammonoid zone, Vaca Muerta Formation, Late/Upper Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• Vetustum Horizon (lower Alternans Zone, Upper Tithonian) based on identification of Parodontoceras calistoides.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, black, argillaceous limestone

• Black marly limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G. Bodenbender

• Repository: Geowissenschaftliches Zentrum der Georg-August-Universität, Geowissenschaftliches Museum, Göttingen (GZG)

Primary reference: H. Parent, G. Schweigert, A. Scherzinger and A. C. Garrido. 2022. Hypowaagenia? bodenbenderi (Behrendsen): A rare aspidoceratid ammonite from the Tithonian of the Neuquén Basin, Argentina. Annales de Paléontologie 108(102571) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 228376: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.12.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Himalayitidae
Parodontoceras calistoides Behrendsen 1891 ammonite
Perisphinctes cf. lorioli in Behrendsen (1892)
 Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
"Aspidoceras bodenbenderi n. sp." = Hypowaagenia bodenbenderi
"Aspidoceras bodenbenderi n. sp." = Hypowaagenia bodenbenderi Behrendsen 1892 ammonite