Quebrada La Papa, Atacama (Jurassic of Chile)

Where: Chile (29.2° S, 70.2° W: paleocoordinates 31.6° S, 31.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: 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 95445: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 16.04.2010

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Taxonomic list

• bivalves only
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Malleidae