Salar de Pedernales, Atacama (Jurassic of Chile)

Where: Chile (26.3° S, 69.3° W: paleocoordinates 24.2° S, 33.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aalenian (174.1 - 170.3 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 95634: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 21.04.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• bivalves only; list includes only taxa that have not been reported in Aberhan (1992)
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus Schlotheim 1813 scallop