B11-Cerro Tricolor, Bed 805, Mendoza (Jurassic of Argentina)

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

• yellowish brown tuffs

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
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Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Ostreida - Posidoniidae
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Weyla alata von Buch 1838 scallop
W. alata angustecostata
Weyla unca Philippi 1899 scallop
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Myophorella sp. Bayle 1878 clam
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
 Seguenzioidea - Eucyclidae
? Ambercyclus isabelensis Ferrari et al. 2014 snail