Also known as Arroyo Blanco

Where: Mendoza, Argentina (34.8° S, 69.8° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° S, 29.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Epophioceras ammonoid zone, Puesto Araya Formation, Late/Upper Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; sandstone and shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: MLP - Invertebrate Palaeontology Department at Museo de Ciencias Naturales La Plata, Argentina

Primary reference: S. E. Damborenea and S. Lanés. 2007. Early Jurassic shell beds from marginal marine environments in southern Mendoza, Argentina. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 250:68-88 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 201506: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 12.05.2019

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