Agua de la Mula MO9, Agrio Formation, Neuquén Basin, Neuquén (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Where: Argentina (38.1° S, 70.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.6° S, 33.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Agrio Formation), Early/Lower Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• Holcoptychites neuquensis zone, Olcostephanus (O.) laticosta subzone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified siltstone

• shoreface to offshore paleoenvironments on a storm-dominated, shallow marine ramp
• grey, calcareous siltstone, weathering brown, 0.2 m

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. B. Aguirre-Urreta and P. F. Rawson. 2001. Lower Cretaceous ammonites from the Neuquén Basin, Argentina: a Hauterivian Olcostephanus fauna. Cretaceous Research 22(6):763-778 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61704: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.06.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Rotularia sp.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
Olcostephanus (Olcostephanus) laticosta