Loma de Los Piojos Section, near San José de Jáchal: Gorstian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Conodonta - Prioniodontida
Pseudooneotodus beckmanni (Bischoff and Sannemann 1958)
Conodonta - Ozarkodinida - Kockelellidae
Kockelella variabilis Walliser 1957
Kockelella variabilis variabilis
Conodonta - Ozarkodinida - Spathognathodontodae
Ozarkodina excavata (Branson and Mehl 1933)
recombined as Hindeodella excavata
Ozarkodina excavata excavata
Edrioasteroidea - Edrioasterida - Rhenopyrgidae
Rhenopyrgus piojoensis n. sp. Sumrall et al. 2013
115 specimens
86 on slab plus 29 associated with it that could not be reattached.
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:San Juan
Coordinates: 30.3° South, 68.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.1° South, 130.0° West
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Silurian Epoch:Ludlow
Stage:Gorstian 10 m.y. bin:Silurian 2
Key time interval:Gorstian Conodont zone: Kockelella variabilis variabilis
Age range of interval:427.40000 - 425.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Los Espejos
Local section:Loma de Los Piojos Local bed:350 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:hummocky CS lithified sandstone
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: INSUGEO Instituto Miguel Lillo Collection
Taxonomic list comments:Lots of other taxa are here, but only conodonts and edrioasteroid are named.
Metadata
Database number:155708
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-04-25 17:55:25 Last modified:2014-04-25 17:55:25
Access level:the public Released:2014-04-25 17:55:25
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

50879. C. D. Sumrall, S. Heredia, C. M. Rodríguez and A. I. Mestre. 2013. The first report of South American edrioasteroids and the paleoecology and ontogeny of rhenopyrgid echinoderms. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58(4):763-776 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]