Río Pulido, Atacama (Jurassic to of Chile)

Where: Chile (28.3° S, 70.0° W: paleocoordinates 26.7° S, 32.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Toarcian to Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 175.6 Ma)

• (?Early to) Middle 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 95561: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 19.04.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• bivalves only
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Propeamussium (Parvamussium) pumilum Lamarck 1819 mud scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium (Entolium) corneolum Young and Bird 1828 scallop