Where: Argentina (43.3° S, 70.2° W: paleocoordinates 56.8° S, 80.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Las Salinas Formation (Tepuel Group), Bashkirian to Bashkirian (323.2 - 307.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: M. A. Pagani. 2005. Los bivalvos carboniferos y permicos de la Patagonia (Chubut, Argentina). Parte III: Familias Mytilidae, Pterineidae, Limidae, Leptochondriidae, Etheripectinidae, Euchondriidae y Streblochondriidae. Ameghiniana 42(3):579-596 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88688: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.04.2009, edited by Pete Wagner

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