Mesón Group (Spanish: Grupo Mesón) is a Cambrian to Early Ordovician sedimentary formation located in the Argentine Northwest and nearby parts of Bolivia. The group members rest unconformably on top of the Ediacaran–Cambrian Puncoviscana Formation. According to G.F. Aceñolaza, the Mesón Basin – the sedimentary basin in which the Méson Group was deposited – was located between the Arequipa and Río de la Plata Cratons.[1]
| Mesón Group | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Cambrian-Tremadocian | |
| Type | Group |
| Sub-units | Lizoite Fm. Campanario Fm. Chahualmayoc Fm. |
| Underlies | Santa Victoria Group |
| Overlies | Puncoviscana Formation |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Sandstone, siltstone, limestone |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 23°00′S 65°00′W / 23.0°S 65.0°W |
| Approximate paleocoordinates | 45°24′S 128°54′W / 45.4°S 128.9°W |
| Region | Jujuy, Salta, Tucumán Potosí Department |
| Country | Argentina Bolivia |
  Mesón Group (Argentina) | |
Stratigraphy
editThe Mesón Group comprises three formations: Chahualmayoc Formation at the top, Lizoite Formation at the base and Campanario Formation in-between.[2] The group is composed of sandstones, siltstones and limestones.[3][4]
Fossil content
editThe group has provided fossils of:
- Trilobites
- Other
References
edit- ^ Aceñolaza, G.F. (2003). "The Cambrian System in Northwestern Argentina: stratigraphical and palaeontological framework". Geologica Acta. 1 (1): 23–39. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
- ^ Mángano, M. G., & Buatois, L. A. (2000). Ichnology, sedimentary dynamics, and sequence stratigraphy of the Mesón Group: A Cambrian macrotidal shallow-marine depositional system in northwest Argentina. Cambrian from the southern edge, Instituto Superior de Correlación Geológica, Miscelánea, 6, 109–110.
- ^ Grupo Meson Quartzite Fm., Alto de la sierra, Argentina at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Grupo Meson Quartzite Fm., Sapagua (Humamuaco), Argentina at Fossilworks.org
Further reading
edit- F. G. Acenolaza. 1986. El genero Macrocystella (Cystoidea) en el Tremadociano de Salta y Jujuy. Actas del IV congreso Argentino de paleontologia y bioestratigrafia - Simposio: Bioestratigrafia del Paleozoico Inferior. Ed. A. Cuerda. 1:133-137