Loma de Los Piojos Section, near San José de Jáchal (Silurian of Argentina)

Where: San Juan, Argentina (30.3° S, 68.8° W: paleocoordinates 44.1° S, 130.0° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kockelella variabilis variabilis conodont zone, Los Espejos Formation, Gorstian (427.4 - 425.6 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: INSUGEO Instituto Miguel Lillo Collection

Primary reference: C. D. Sumrall, S. Heredia, C. M. Rodríguez and A. I. Mestre. 2013. The first report of South American edrioasteroids and the paleoecology and ontogeny of rhenopyrgid echinoderms. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58(4):763-776 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155708: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 25.04.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Lots of other taxa are here, but only conodonts and edrioasteroid are named.
Edrioasteroidea
 Edrioasterida - Rhenopyrgidae
Rhenopyrgus piojoensis n. sp. Sumrall et al. 2013
86 on slab plus 29 associated with it that could not be reattached.
Conodonta
 Prioniodontida -
Pseudooneotodus beckmanni Bischoff and Sannemann 1958 conodont
 Ozarkodinida - Spathognathodontodae
"Ozarkodina excavata" = Wurmiella excavata
"Ozarkodina excavata" = Wurmiella excavata Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
Ozarkodina excavata excavata
 Ozarkodinida - Kockelellidae
Kockelella variabilis Walliser 1957 conodont
Kockelella variabilis variabilis