Loma Naunauco, Agrio Formation, Neuquén Basin, Neuquén (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Also known as Reef 4123

Where: Argentina (37.7° S, 70.2° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° S, 34.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pilmatué Member (Agrio Formation), Early/Lower Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• upper part of the lower member (Pilmatué) of the Agrio Formation; Holcoptychites neuquensis zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified limestone

• shoreface to offshore paleoenvironments on a storm-dominated, shallow marine ramp
• a calcareous nodule from a sequence of dark, silty shales and a coquina-capped sandstone ridge

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. B. Aguirre-Urreta and P. F. Rawson. 2003. Lower Cretaceous ammonites from the Neuquén Basin, Argentina: the Hauterivian genus Holcoptychites. Cretaceous Research 24(5):589-613 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61589: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.06.2006, edited by Mihaela Krause

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Columastreidae
Columastrea antiqua Gerth 1928 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Stereocaenia triboleti Koby 1896 stony coral
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Diastoporidae
Berenicea sp. Lamouroux 1821
Rhynchonellata
 Thecideida - Thecideidae
Polychaeta
 Serpulimorpha -
 Sabellida - Sabellidae
Glomerula serpentina Schlotheim 1820
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus cf. subsimplex d'Orbigny 1850 mussel
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Amphidonte sp., "Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) sp." = Ceratostreon
Amphidonte sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1829 oyster
"Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) sp." = Ceratostreon Bayle 1878 oyster
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Mimachlamys robinaldina Orbigny 1847 scallop
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula sp. Lamarck 1801 scallop
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Steinmanella sp. Crickmay 1930 clam
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
 Ammonitida - Holcodiscidae
Holcoptychites agrioensis Weaver 1931 ammonite
Holcoptychites magdalenae Douvillé 1910 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Pteropoda - Clionidae
Clionidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 snail
 Ichnofossils -
Gastrochaenolites torpedo Kelly and Bromley 1984