south of Sierra Minillas, Atacama (Jurassic of Chile)

Where: Chile (26.2° S, 70.5° W: paleocoordinates 30.6° S, 32.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Hettangian (201.3 - 196.5 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. 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 95103: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 06.04.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• bivalves only
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys (Chlamys) valoniensis" = Praechlamys valoniensis
"Chlamys (Chlamys) valoniensis" = Praechlamys valoniensis Defrance 1825 scallop
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Weyla (? Weyla) sp. Boehm 1922 scallop
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya galathea Agassiz 1842 clam