Where: Argentina (30.0° S, 69.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° S, 132.8° W)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Las Plantas Formation, Costonian to Costonian (460.9 - 455.8 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, concretionary, black, gray, calcareous lime mudstone and wackestone
Collection methods: JA: marked by Novack-Gottshall without explanation as omitting some genera, some macrofossils, some microfossils, and species names, but apparently complete
Primary reference: T. M. Sanchez. 1990. Una fauna de bivalvos en la Formacion Santa Gertrudis (Ordovicico) de la Provincia de Salta (Argentina). Ameghiniana 23(3-4):131-139 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 8889: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 02.09.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Modiolopsis sp. Hall 1847 clam | |
? Protomya sp. clam | |
Strophomenata | |
Bicuspina sp. Havlicek 1950 | |
Sowerbyella sp. Jones 1928 | |
Anchoramena sp. Benedetto 1995 | |
Bystromena sp. Williams 1974 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Campylorthis sp. Ulrich and Copper 1942
Dinorthis sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Oanduporella sp. Hints 1975 | |
Camerella sp. Billings 1859 | |
Trilobita | |
Amphilichas sp. Raymond 1905 trilobite | |
Guandacolithus sp. Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite | |
Pseudobasilicus sp. Reed 1930 trilobite | |
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite | |
Encrinurus sp. Emmrich 1844 trilobite | |
Pterobranchia | |
Orthograptus sp. Lapworth 1873 graptolite | |
Climacograptus sp. Hall 1865 climacograptid | |
Nemagraptus sp. graptolite
Dicellograptus sp. Hopkinson 1871 graptolite
Dicranograptus sp. Hall 1865 graptolite | |
Oepikoides sp. Benedetto 1995 |