B9-Cerro Puchenque (I), Beds 321-323, Mendoza (Jurassic of Argentina)

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; green, calcareous sandstone and shale

• fine light-green calcareous sandstones, very hard, within interbedded shell-beds; local intercalations of laminated sandstones and shales and also of medium to carse sandstones; the individual sequences are graded, suggesting either storm or turbiditic origin for this portion of the section

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 33782: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 07.08.2003, edited by Sabine Nürnberg

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Taxonomic list

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Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet.
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
Ammonoidea indet.
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Ostreida - Malleidae
Isognomon jupiter, Pulvinites (Hypotrema) liasicus
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna cf. folium
Pinna cf. folium Young and Bird 1822 oyster
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
"Plicatula (Harpax) rapa" = Harpax rapa, "Harpax rapa" = Harpax rapa
"Plicatula (Harpax) rapa" = Harpax rapa Bayle and Coquand 1851 scallop
"Harpax rapa" = Harpax rapa Bayle and Coquand 1851 scallop