D3-Salitral Grande, Bed 1037, South Neuquen (Jurassic of Argentina)

Where: Neuquen, Argentina (40.1° S, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 40.4° S, 28.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Piedra Pintada Formation, Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• formation also known as Lajas

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; tuffaceous, yellow sandstone

• highly fossiliferous very hard, yellowish tuffaceous sandstones

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 33860: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 07.08.2003, edited by Sabine Nürnberg

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Weyla bodenbenderi Behrendsen 1891 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys" textoria Schlotheim 1820 scallop
Radulonectites sosneadoensis Weaver 1931 scallop
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Harpax rapa Bayle and Coquand 1851 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium ? disciforme Schubler 1833 scallop
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon groeberi Damborenea 1987 clam
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida -