Bajada de Jagüel (upper Maastrichtian): Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Amphidonte mendozana (Ihering 1907)
Casadio 1998
Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis (Lamarck 1806)
recombined as Pycnodonta vesicularis
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Arachnopusiidae
Poricella tripora (Canu 1911)
1 specimen
MPEF-PI 6132.67. Listed as upper Danian in text, but upper Maastrichtian in figure caption and specimen list
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Calloporidae
Flustrellaria sp.
1 specimen
MPEF-PI 6132.21
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Neuquén
Coordinates: 37.9° South, 68.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.2° South, 56.5° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Late/Upper Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Jagüel
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified mudstone
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio, Trelew, Argentina (MPEF)
Metadata
Database number:220770
Authorizer:M. Clapham, E. Vlachos Enterer:M. Clapham, E. Vlachos
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2021-06-14 22:46:43 Last modified:2021-06-14 22:46:43
Access level:the public Released:2021-06-14 22:46:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

77144. S. S. Brezina, P. D. Taylor, M. V. Romero, E. E. Palópolo, and S. Casadío. 2021. Upper Maastrichtian and Danian bryozoans from northern Patagonia, Argentina. Cretaceous Research 125(104845) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

85732 S. Casadio. 1998. Las ostras del límite Cretácico-Paleógeno de la cuenca Neuquina (Argentina). Su importancia bioestratigráfica y paleobiogeográfica. Ameghiniana 35(4):449-471 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]