Los Espejos Formation, Additional Trilobites, Precordillera (Silurian to of Argentina)

Where: Argentina (30.0° S, 69.0° W: paleocoordinates 45.0° S, 129.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Los Espejos Formation, Wenlock to Wenlock (433.4 - 419.2 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and mudstone

• See PBDB collection 25058.

Collection methods: See PBDB Collection 25058 and sub-collections, which contain trilobites. The present work includes additional taxa.

Primary reference: B. G. Waisfeld and T. M. Sanchez. 1993. Trilobites Siluricos de la Formacion Lipeon en el noroeste Argentino (Sierra de Zapla, Provincia de Jujuy). Ameghiniana 30(1):77-90 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25105: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 28.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Calmoniinae sp.
Trilobita
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Kettneraspis sp.
Kettneraspis sp. Prantl and Pribyl 1949 trilobite
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Paciphacops argentinus
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Dalmanites cf. sudamericanus, Dalmanites sp.
Dalmanites sp. Barrande 1852 trilobite
sp. 1
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Calymene vallecitoensis
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Trimerus (Trimerus) kayseri