B12-Arroyo Poti Malal, Bed 818, Mendoza (Jurassic of Argentina)

Where: Mendoza, Argentina (36.0° S, 70.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.2° S, 31.1° 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; calcareous sandstone

• fine to medium-grained calcareous sandstones with interbedded coarser beds and shell-beds

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 33815: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 07.08.2003

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Taxonomic list

Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna cf. folium Young and Bird 1822 oyster
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel