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Empozada - Rusconi, Las Heras Department, Mendoza Province, Argentina
Formation | Empozada |
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Member | Rusconi |
Age: | 478 - 470 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician |
Interval | Floian |
Lithology | shale |
Number of Collections | 1 |
Number of Occurrences | 8 |
Recorded Sample Locations
Location | Region | Stratigraphic Name |
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EmpozadenseFarm | Las Heras Department, Mendoza Province, Argentina | Empozada - Rusconi |
Associated Units
Stratigraphic Name | Age | Lithology | Occurrence Records |
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Empozada | 461 - 450 Ma Ordovician | shale, "shale"/"limestone", "limestone"/"shale", "limestone", "carbonate" | 32 |
Empozada - Top | 458 - 450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician | limestone | 9 |
Empozadense | 470 - 458 Ma Middle Ordovician | 5 | |
Potrerillos | 237 - 201 Ma Mesozoic | siliciclastic | 45 |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Age |
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Caryocaris sp. genus | Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Caryocarididae : Caryocaris | 477.7 - 470 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician |
Oepikodus sp. genus | Animalia : Chordata : Conodonta : Oepikodus | 477.7 - 470 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician |
Clonograptus sp. genus | Animalia : Hemichordata : Graptolithina : Dichograptidae : Clonograptus | 477.7 - 470 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician |
Didymograptus sp. genus | Animalia : Hemichordata : Dichograptidae : Didymograptus | 477.7 - 470 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician |
Dichograptus sp. genus | Animalia : Hemichordata : Graptolithina : Dichograptus | 477.7 - 470 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician |
Paratetragraptus approximatus species | Animalia : Hemichordata : Graptolithina : Phyllograptidae : Paratetragraptus : Paratetragraptus approximatus | 477.7 - 470 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician |
Tetragraptus quadribrachiatus species | Animalia : Hemichordata : Graptolithina : Tetragrapta : Tetragraptus : Tetragraptus quadribrachiatus | 477.7 - 470 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician |
References
Bordonaro O. L., Peralta S.H. (1987) El Arenigiano inferior de la Formacion Empozada en la localidad de San Isidro, Mendoza, Argentina, Actas del decimo congreso geologico Argentino 3, 81-84 |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!