Vega Redonda, Atacama (Jurassic to of Chile)

Where: Chile (27.1° S, 69.0° W: paleocoordinates 27.3° S, 31.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliensbachian to Late/Upper Pliensbachian (189.6 - 182.0 Ma)

• (Late) Pliensbachian or Early Toarcian

• 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 95545: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 18.04.2010

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Taxonomic list

• bivalves only
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma "sp. B" Sowerby 1814 file clam
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Propeamussium (Parvamussium) pumilum Lamarck 1819 mud scallop