Río Manflas, Atacama (Jurassic of Chile)

Where: Chile (28.2° S, 70.0° W: paleocoordinates 26.4° S, 33.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Aalenian (175.6 - 171.6 Ma)

• bed-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 95396: 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