Where: La Rioja, Argentina (28.6° S, 68.7° W: paleocoordinates 48.3° S, 63.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Member (Río del Peñón Formation), Bashkirian (323.2 - 315.2 Ma)
• Middle part of middle member; upper Bashkirian according to U-Pb radiometric dates in Gulbranson et al. (2010).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: Repository: Fundación Miguel Lillo, Instituto de Paleontología, Sección Paleoinvertebrados (IPI).
Primary reference: G. A. Cisterna and T. Simanauskas. 2000. Brachiopods from the Rio del Penon Formation, Rio Blanco Basin, Upper Palaeozoic of Argentina. Revista Española de Paleontologia 15(2):129-151 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136525: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Lingulata | |
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847 |