PL-1 (Pedro Luro 1532-1584 mbnm) (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Where: Buenos Aires, Argentina (39.5° S, 62.7° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 41.5° S, 43.6° W (Wright 2013)

When: UC15 foram zone, Colorado Formation, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, muddy, sandy siliciclastic sediments

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: J. P. Pérez Panera. 2015. Calcareous nannofossil events in the late cretaceous at Pedro Luro borehole, Colorado basin, Argentina. Libro de Resumenes de la Reunion de Comunicaciones de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 14more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 236901: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Antonio Pasini on 05.11.2024

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Taxonomic list

Coccolithophyceae
 Watznaueriales - Watznaueriaceae
 Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae
 Eiffellithales - Rhagodiscaceae
 Eiffellithales - Chiastozygaceae
 Podorhabdales - Biscutaceae
 Braarudosphaerales - Polycyclolithaceae
Micula "sp. A" Vekshina 1959 coccolithophore
Micula staurophora Gardet 1955 coccolithophore
Micula concava Stradner 1960 coccolithophore
 Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae
Micrantholithus sp. Deflandre 1954
Coccolithus pelagicus Wallich 1877
Cruciplacolithus primus Perch-Nielsen 1977
 Arkhangelskiales - Kamptneriaceae
Kamptnerius magnificus Deflandre 1959
 Arkhangelskiales - Arkhangelskiellaceae
  - Calyptrosphaeraceae
Acuturris scotus Rissati 1973
Lucianorhabdus maleformis Reinhardt 1966
Calculites obscurus Deflandre 1959
 Podorhabdales - Prediscosphaeraceae
Prediscosphaera stoveri Perch-Nielsen 1968
Prediscosphaera cretacea Arkhangelsky 1912
 Podorhabdales - Axopodorhabdaceae
Cribrosphaerella ehrenbergii Arkhangelsky 1912
 Podorhabdales - Biscutaceae
Seribiscutum primitivum Thierstein et al. 1974
Biscutum magnum Wind and Wise 1977
Biscutum melaniae Górka 1957
 Eiffellithales - Eiffellithaceae
 Eiffellithales - Chiastozygaceae
Dinophyceae
 Thoracosphaerales -
Thoracosphaera sp. Kamptner 1927
Toweius
  - Coccolithacea
Toweius africanus Perch-Nielsen 1981