Where: Argentina (47.1° S, 66.7° W: paleocoordinates 47.9° S, 59.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Chattian to Chattian (28.1 - 16.0 Ma)
• Either from the San Julian or Monte Leon Formation. These units range from Chattian to Burdigalian by Sr and U-Pb chronology (Parras et., 2012; Perkins et al., 2012).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1959. Genera of Tertiary and Recent rhynchonelloid brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 130(5):1-90 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 187478: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.07.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Plicirhynchia plicigera Ihering 1897 |