Where: Neuquen, Argentina (39.2° S, 70.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.6° S, 29.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Cuyo Group, Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)
• within the Fanninoceras ammonite Zone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; tuffaceous, 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 33842: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 07.08.2003, edited by Sabine Nürnberg
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
? Myophorella sp. Bayle 1878 clam
Frenguelliella tapiai Lambert 1944 clam | |
Pinna cf. folium Young and Bird 1822 oyster | |
"Plicatula (Harpax) rapa" = Harpax rapa
"Plicatula (Harpax) rapa" = Harpax rapa Bayle and Coquand 1851 scallop | |
"Chlamys" textoria Schlotheim 1820 scallop | |
Weyla unca Philippi 1899 scallop |