Posada de los Hidalgos, Antofagasta (Jurassic of Chile)

Where: Chile (25.8° S, 70.6° W: paleocoordinates 28.4° S, 33.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower 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

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 95558: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 19.04.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• bivalves only
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
"Oxytoma (Oxytoma) inequivalvis" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
"Oxytoma (Oxytoma) inequivalvis" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop