Also known as Purmamarca river Cecioni 1965 locality
Where: Jujuy, Argentina (23.7° S, 65.5° W: paleocoordinates 43.1° S, 129.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sepulturas Formation, Floian (478.6 - 471.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, shelly/skeletal, carbonaceous packstone and lithified, silty sandstone
•"inner shelf sediments deposited below fair-weather wave-base, periodically affected by storm events. Cephalopods, as well as trilobites, bivalves and brachiopods, are found in the tempestites formed by such storms (Astini and Waisfeld 1993)."
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: recrystallized, original aragonite, replaced with calcite
Primary reference: M. Cichowolski. 2009. A review of the endocerid cephalopod Protocyptendoceras from the Floian (Lower Ordovician)of the Eastern Cordillera, Argentina. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 54(1):99-109 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 87794: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 24.03.2009