Where: Mendoza, Argentina (32.0° S, 69.0° W: paleocoordinates 42.0° S, 125.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Los Sombreros Formation, St Davids (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)
• Allochthonous boulder within Ordovician sediments, yielded only conodonts of Cordylodus proavus BIozone
Environment/lithology: slope; shelly/skeletal packstone
Primary reference: L. E. Holmer, L. Popov, and O. Lehnert. 1999. Cambrian phosphatic brachiopods from the Precordillera of western Argentina. GFF 121:227-242 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 55945: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 09.11.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Lingulata | |
Picnotreta robusta n. sp., Dactylotreta sanjuanensis n. sp.
Picnotreta robusta n. sp. Holmer et al. 1999
Dactylotreta sanjuanensis n. sp. |