Where: Chile (28.2° S, 70.0° W: paleocoordinates 30.6° S, 31.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• (Late) Sinemurian

• 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,

• collected since 1966

Primary reference: M. Aberhan. 1994. Early Jurassic Bivalvia of northern Chile. Part I. Subclasses Palaeotaxodonta, Pteriomorphia, and Isofilibranchia. Beringeria 13:3-115 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 95099: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 06.04.2010

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