Quebrada Oblicua (#2), Mendoza, Argentina - Tortello and Bordonaro 1997 (Cambrian of Argentina)

Where: Mendoza, Argentina (32.9° S, 68.8° W: paleocoordinates 38.3° S, 128.0° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Empozada Formation, Merioneth (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified carbonate

• general: isolated, predominantly carbonate blocks (olistoliths

Collection methods: Revisions of the Carlos Rusconi collections in the Museum of Natural Sciences of Mendoza, Argentina. Includes only agnostid trilobites.

Primary reference: M. F. Tortello and O. L. Bordonaro. 1997. Cambrian Agnostid trilobites from Mendoza, Argentina: A systematic revision and biostratigraphic implications. Journal of Paleontology 71(1):74-86 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9818: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Phil Borkow on 22.01.2001

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Taxonomic list

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Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Homagnostus pehuenchensis
Homagnostus pehuenchensis
(3 cephala and 4 pygidia)