La Capilla, Las Cambachas, bivalves (Carboniferous to of Argentina)

Where: San Juan, Argentina (31.3° S, 69.5° W: paleocoordinates 45.4° S, 61.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: La Capilla Formation, Kasimovian to Kasimovian (307.0 - 298.9 Ma)

• Age assignment not confirmed. Levipustula Zone (Upper Carboniferous) indicated.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified siltstone and lithified packstone

• Limestone coquina in siltstone sequence

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: A. F. Sterren. 2005. Bivalvos carboníferos de la Formación La Capilla en el área de Las Cambachas, provincia de San Juan, Argentina. Ameghiniana 42(1):209-219 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55406: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 18.10.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Actinodontida - Oriocrassatellidae
? Oriocrassatella sp.
? Oriocrassatella sp. Etheridge 1907 clam
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
Schizodus sp.
Schizodus sp. King 1844 clam
 Nuculanida - Polidevciidae
Phestia sp.
Phestia sp. Chernyshev 1951 clam