Where: Argentina (31.0° S, 69.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° S, 132.6° W)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (La Cantera Formation), Early/Lower Llandeilo (466.0 - 460.9 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: submarine fan; lithified, calcareous sandstone
Collection methods: JA: marked by Novack-Gottshall without explanation as omitting some genera, some macrofossils, some microfossils, and species names, but apparently complete
Primary reference: G. L. Albanesi, J. L. Benedetto, and P. Gagnier. 1995. Sacabambaspis janvieri (Vertebrata) y conodontes del Llandeiliano temprano en la Formacion La Cantera, Precordillera de San Juan, Argentina. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencas 60(3-4):51 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 8868: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 02.09.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Pteraspidomorpha | |
Sacabambaspis janvieri Gagnier et al. 1986 | |
Conodonta | |
Drepanoistodus sp. Lindstrom 1971 conodont | |
Phragmodus sp. Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont | |
Rhodesognathus sp. Bergstrom and Sweet 1966 conodont | |
Eoplacognathus sp. Hamar 1966 conodont | |
Erismodus sp. conodont | |
Panderodus sp. Ethington 1959 conodont |