Where: Chile (28.9° S, 70.2° W: paleocoordinates 27.3° S, 33.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Toarcian (180.1 - 175.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite, replaced with silica
Collection methods: mechanical, acetic,
Primary reference: M. Aberhan. 2004. Early Jurassic Bivalvia of northern Chile. Part II. Subclass Anomalodesmata. Beringeria 34:117-154 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 58506: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 10.02.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Pholadomya (Pholadomya) fidicula Sowerby 1826 clam | |
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam |