ammonites
Las Aguaditas Fm., Quebrada de Las Aguaditas and Cordon de los Blanquitos, Argen (Ordovician of Argentina)

Where: Argentina (30.0° S, 69.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.6° S, 133.2° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Las Aguaditas Formation, Caradoc (460.9 - 449.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, sandy, calcareous limestone and claystone

• limestone, sometimes sandy, brecia, and calcareous, marly shale

Collection methods: JA: marked by Novack-Gottshall without explanation as omitting some genera, some macrofossils, some microfossils, and species names, but apparently complete

Primary reference: B. A. Baldis and N. G. Cabaleri. 1988. La zona de Incaia en la Precordillera Argentina. Anais do VII congresso Latino-americano de Geologia 1:492-499 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8776: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 29.08.2000