Where: Argentina (24.3° S, 65.3° W: paleocoordinates 43.6° S, 129.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cardonal Formation, Tremadocian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

• Listed as Lower Tremadocian, Cardonal Formation

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, sandy limestone and lithified siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Conodonts and trilobites only; collection 3, 115m above formation

Primary reference: R. I. Rao and M. F. Tortello. 1998. Tremadoc conodonts and trilobites from the Cardonal Formation, Incamayo Creek, Salta Province, northwestern Argentina. In H. Szaniawski (ed.), Proceedings of the Sixth European Conodont Symposium (ECOS VI)- Paleontologia Polonica 58:31-45 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156001: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 06.05.2014

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