Portezuelo de Pedernales, Atacama - F. fannini Zone (Jurassic of Chile)

Where: Chile (26.3° S, 69.3° W: paleocoordinates 26.6° S, 32.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fanninoceras fannini ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 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 95382: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 15.04.2010

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Taxonomic list

• anomalodesmatans only
Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Pandorida - Laternulidae
? Platymyoidea cf. longa Buvignier 1852 clam