Where: Mendoza, Argentina (35.5° S, 70.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.8° S, 31.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Cuyo Group, Toarcian (182.7 - 174.1 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; brown, yellow carbonate
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 33800: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 07.08.2003, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834 | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Posidonotis cancellata oyster | |
Weyla unca Philippi 1899 scallop | |
Myophorella sp. Bayle 1878 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
? Ambercyclus isabelensis Ferrari et al. 2014 snail |