Portada Covunco Creek, section 1 (Jurassic of Argentina)

Where: Argentina (38.8° S, 70.2° W: paleocoordinates 35.9° S, 31.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: La Manga Formation, Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; wackestone and packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. S. Beresi, N. G. Cabaleri, H. Löser and C. Armella. 2017. Coral patch reef system and associated facies from southwestern Gondwana: paleoenvironmental evolution of the Oxfordian shallow‑marine carbonate platform at Portada Covunco, Neuquén Basin, Argentina. Facies 63(4) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 184598: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 13.03.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Brachiopoda
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Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Diastoporidae
? Berenicea sp. Lamouroux 1821
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Stelidioseris sp. Tomes 1893 stony coral
Stephanastrea sp. Etallon 1862 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Etallonasteria sp. Roniewicz 1966 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Australoseris radialis Morsch 1990 stony coral
Hexactinellida
 Hexactinosa - Staurodermatidae
cf. Stauroderma sp. Zittel 1877 glass sponge
 Hexactinosa - Cribrospongiidae
Cribrospongia sp. d'Orbigny 1849 glass sponge
Foraminifera
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Foraminifera indet. Eichwald 1830
Crescentiella
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? Crescentiella sp. Senowbari-Daryan 2008