Where: Mendoza, Argentina (35.5° S, 69.9° W: paleocoordinates 35.9° S, 30.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Puchenque Formation, Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• within the Fanninoceras ammonite Zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, gray, 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 33765: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 07.08.2003

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