Where: Argentina (35.0° S, 68.0° W: paleocoordinates 31.6° S, 135.8° W)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Lindero Formation, Middle Ordovician (470.0 - 458.4 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, calcareous limestone and conglomerate
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: E. Nunez. 1962. Paleozoico inferior fosilifero en el Bloque de San Juan. Anales de las Primeras Jornadas Geologicas Argentinas 2:185-189 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 9031: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 18.09.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Strophomenata | |
Taffia sp. Butts 1926 | |
Lingulata | |
Obolus sp. Eichwald 1829 | |
Ostracoda | |
? Paraparchites sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1906 ostracod
Proparaparchites sp. Cooper 1941 ostracod
Chamishaella sp. Sohn 1971 ostracod | |
Coelonella sp. Stewart 1936 ostracod | |
Tvaerenella sp. Jaanusson 1957 ostracod | |
? Primitiella sp. Ulrich 1894 ostracod | |
Aparchites sp. ostracod | |
? Isochilina sp. Jones 1858 ostracod | |
Eoleperditia sp. Swartz 1949 ostracod
Anisochilina sp. Teichert 1937 ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
Lonchodomas sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite |