Also known as Reef 4098

Where: Argentina (30.0° S, 69.0° W: paleocoordinates 38.8° S, 128.1° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Cordylodus angulatus conodont zone, La Silla Formation, Tremadocian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified shale and grainstone

Size class: macrofossils

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: M. Keller, F. Canas, O. Lehnert and N. E. Vaccari. 1994. The Upper Cambrian and Lower Ordovician of the Precordillera (Western Argentina): Some stratigraphic reconsiderations. Newsletters on Stratigraphy 31(2):115-132 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8880: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 02.09.2000, edited by Mihaela Krause

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