Cerro de La Parva, Agrio Formation, 50m (P7), Neuquen Basin: Late/Upper Valanginian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Karakaschiceras attenuatus (Behrendsen 1892)
(14 measurements)
Bivalvia - Ostreida
Ostreoida indet. FĂ«russac 1822
corrected as Ostreida
small oysters
Bivalvia - Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea sp. (Menard 1807)
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina
Coordinates: 37.3° South, 70.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.4° South, 33.6° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Valanginian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 1
Key time interval:Late/Upper Valanginian
Age range of interval:139.80000 - 132.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Mendoza Formation:Agrio Member:Lower
Local section:Cerro de La Parva Local bed:50 m
Local order:top to bottom
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: = horizon P7
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified silty "shale"
Lithology description: silty shales with sterile irregular calcareous nodules
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface
Glacial or sequence phase:transgressive
Geology comments: ' 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)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:65448
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-09-22 06:58:09 Last modified:2006-12-05 04:14:07
Access level:the public Released:2006-09-22 06:58:09
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

18861. 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]