Quebrada Noria, Atacama (Jurassic of Chile)

Where: Chile (27.4° S, 69.8° W: paleocoordinates 29.8° S, 31.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 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 95424: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 15.04.2010

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Taxonomic list

• bivalves only
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya (Pholadomya) corrugata Koch and Dunker 1837 clam
Homomya neuquena Leanza 1942 clam