Where: San Juan, Argentina (32.3° S, 70.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.8° S, 31.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: El Cholo Formation, Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)
• formation also known as Puesto Araya
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; tuffaceous, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: S. E. Damborenea. 1987. Early Jurassic Bivalvia of Argentina: Part 1, Stratigraphical introduction and superfamilies Nuculanacea, Arcacea, Mytilacea and Pinnacea. Palaeontographica A199(1-3):23-111 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 33695: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 05.08.2003, edited by Sabine Nürnberg
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Pseudopecten aff. equivalvis Sowerby 1816 scallop | |
Weyla bodenbenderi Behrendsen 1891 scallop | |
? Myophorella sp. Bayle 1878 clam | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Anthozoa | |
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834 |