Lower mbr., La Cantera Fm., Sierra de Villicum, Argentina (Ordovician of Argentina)

Where: Argentina (31.0° S, 69.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° S, 132.6° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (La Cantera Formation), Early/Lower Llandeilo (466.0 - 460.9 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: submarine fan; lithified, calcareous sandstone

• turbiditic,well-rounded calcareous sandstone

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: G. L. Albanesi, J. L. Benedetto, and P. Gagnier. 1995. Sacabambaspis janvieri (Vertebrata) y conodontes del Llandeiliano temprano en la Formacion La Cantera, Precordillera de San Juan, Argentina. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencas 60(3-4):51 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8868: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 02.09.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Show authors, comments, and common names
Pteraspidomorpha
 Arandaspida - Arandaspididae
Sacabambaspis janvieri
Sacabambaspis janvieri Gagnier et al. 1986
Conodonta
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus sp.
Panderodus sp. Ethington 1959 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Drepanoistodus sp.
Drepanoistodus sp. Lindstrom 1971 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Rhodesognathus sp.
Rhodesognathus sp. Bergstrom and Sweet 1966 conodont
 Prioniodontida -
Erismodus sp., Phragmodus sp.
Erismodus sp. conodont
Phragmodus sp. Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Polyplacognathidae
Eoplacognathus sp.
Eoplacognathus sp. Hamar 1966 conodont