Picun Leufu River, bed PL-10 (Jurassic of Argentina)

Where: Neuquen, Argentina (39.2° S, 70.1° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° S, 32.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Vaca Muerta Formation (Mendoza Group), Middle Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, sandy shale

• grey to black fissil, poorly calcareous, finely sandy shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: H. Parent, A. C. Garrido, G. Schweigert and A. Scherzinger. 2011. The Tithonian ammonite fauna and stratigraphy of Picun Leufu, southern Neuquen Basin, Argentina. Revue de Paleobiologie 30(1):45-104 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132053: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.08.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Ataxioceratidae
Choicensisphinctes cf. erinoides Burckhardt 1903 ammonite