Cerro de La Parva, Agrio Formation, 54m (P5), Neuquen Basin (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Where: Argentina (37.3° S, 70.5° W: paleocoordinates 36.4° S, 33.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Agrio Formation), Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• = horizon P5

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, silty shale

• ' A transgressive phase started in mid-Valanginian time with the deposition of black shales and limestones of the Argio Fm.'

•'shoreface to offshore paleoenvironments on a storm-dominated, shallow marine ramp' (see PBDB coll. 50185)

• silty shales, gray to green-yellowish

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. B. Aguirre-Urreta. 1998. The ammonites Karakaschiceras and Neohoploceras (Valanginian Neocomitidae) from the Neuquen Basin, West-Central Argentina. Journal of Paleontology 72:39-59 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 65449: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 22.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Karakaschiceras neumayri
Karakaschiceras neumayri Behrendsen 1892 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
Olcostephanus atherstoni
Olcostephanus atherstoni Sharpe 1856 ammonite