Quebrada Yerbas Buenas, Atacama (Jurassic of Chile)

Where: Chile (27.1° S, 69.6° W: paleocoordinates 27.6° S, 32.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• ?Pliensbachian

• bed-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 95565: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 19.04.2010

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Taxonomic list

• bivalves only
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Weyla (Weyla) alata von Buch 1838 scallop