Lagunitas Este: Hauterivian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Pseudomelaniidae
Paosia ? sp. Böhm 1895
1 specimen
MCNAM-PI 24493
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Mendoza
Coordinates: 34.6° South, 69.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.2° South, 34.2° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Hauterivian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 2
Key time interval:Hauterivian Ammonoid zone: P. groeberi
Age range of interval:132.60000 - 125.77000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Mendoza Formation:Agrio
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Agrio Formation is a thick unit almost totally composed of marine beds for which deposition begun with a basin-scale transgression.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Fragmentation:occasional
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: MCNAM-PI, Colección de Paleoinvertebrados, Museo de Ciencias Naturales y Antropológicas J.C. Moyano, Mendoza, Argentina
Metadata
Database number:232193
Authorizer:E. Vlachos Enterer:F. Aspromonte
Modifier:F. Aspromonte Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2023-10-30 13:27:54 Last modified:2023-10-30 13:30:14
Access level:the public Released:2023-10-30 13:27:54
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

86214. C. S. Cataldo. 2017. New records of marine gastropods from the Lower Cretaceous of west-central Argentina. Ameghiniana 54(4):405-440 [E. Vlachos/F. Aspromonte]