ammonites
MH21 - Agua de La Mula (Agrio Formation) (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Where: Neuquen, Argentina (38.2° S, 70.1° W: paleocoordinates 37.7° S, 34.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• From unit MH21 (0.3 m thick). From Hoplitocrioceras gentilii subzone, Lower Agrio Member, Agrio Formation, early Hauterivian. KEY TO BED NUMBERING: Stratigraphic heights not given on stratigraphic column in Figure 2, but were calculated based on the scale given in same figure. Base of section corresponds to 0 m.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, calcareous siltstone

• Calcareous siltstone, upper part a coquina.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Material described in this paper are stored in the palaeontological collections of the University of Buenos Aires (CPBA), the Natural Sciences Museum of La Plata (MLP), and the Geological Survey, Buenos Aires (SGN).

Primary reference: M.B. Aguirre-Urreta and P.F. Rawson. 2001. Lower Cretaceous ammonites from the Neuquen Basin, Argentina: the Hauterivian neocomitid genus Hoplitocioceras (Giovine, 1950). Cretaceous Research 22:201-218 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 50562: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.05.2005

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