B8-Arroyo Serrucho, Bed 1353, Mendoza (Jurassic of Argentina)

Where: Mendoza, Argentina (35.4° S, 69.9° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° S, 31.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Puchenque Formation, Toarcian (182.7 - 174.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal limestone and tuffaceous shale

• shelly limestone with tuffaceous shales towards the top

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 33758: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 06.08.2003

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Taxonomic list

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Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet.
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna cf. folium
Pinna cf. folium Young and Bird 1822 oyster
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Propeamussium sp.
Propeamussium sp. de Gregorio 1884 mud scallop