Where: Mendoza, Argentina (35.1° S, 70.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° S, 30.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Puchenque Formation, Late/Upper Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• within the Fanninoceras ammonite Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; green, sandy mudstone

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 33737: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 06.08.2003, edited by Matthew Clapham

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