Where: Chubut, Argentina (43.4° S, 70.1° W: paleocoordinates 58.3° S, 84.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Levipustula levis brachiopod zone, Miembro LS-5 Member (Las Salinas Formation), Namurian (330.9 - 318.7 Ma)

• Sabattanii (Ameghiniana 39[2]:201-211) puts in Levipustula levis Zone, which is in the Namurian; Cisterna, G. A. 1997, Spiriferida (Brachiopoda) en la Formación Las Salinas, Carbonífero Superior, Provincia de Chubut, Argentina: Ameghiniana. 34 155–161 might have more information.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. R. González. 1977. Bivalvos del Carbonico superior del Chubut, Argentina. (Bivalves from the Upper Carboniferous of Chubut, Argentina). Acta Geologica Lilloana 14:105-147 [P. Wagner/K. Koverman/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 43627: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Kimberly Koverman on 16.08.2004

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