west of Quebrada de las Pircas, Atacama (Jurassic of Chile)

Where: Chile (28.9° S, 70.4° W: paleocoordinates 29.6° S, 32.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• ?Pliensbachian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: mechanical,

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 95540: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 18.04.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• bivalves only
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Ctenostreon cf. rugosum Smith 1817 file clam
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium (Entolium) corneolum Young and Bird 1828 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Eopecten velatus Goldfuss 1833 scallop