A2-Arroyo La Laguna, Bed 431, San Juan (Jurassic of Argentina)

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; within the Fanninoceras ammonite zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous sandstone and sandy limestone

• fine calcareous sandstones and sandy limestones, with tuff grains and several shell-beds

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 33699: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 05.08.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
Protogrammoceras sp. Spath 1913 ammonite
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Ostreida - Malleidae
 Ostreida - Posidoniidae
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon sp. Meek and Worthen 1866 clam
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Frenguelliella sp. Leanza 1942 clam
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
Spiriferina tumida
S. tumida ericensis