Quebrada Asientos, Atacama (Jurassic of Chile)

Where: Chile (26.5° S, 69.3° W: paleocoordinates 25.8° S, 32.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 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 95637: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 21.04.2010

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Taxonomic list

• bivalves only; list includes only taxa that have not been reported in Aberhan (1992)
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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Ctenostreon cf. rugosum
Ctenostreon cf. rugosum Smith 1817 file clam
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Propeamussium (Parvamussium) pumilum
Propeamussium (Parvamussium) pumilum Lamarck 1819 mud scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium (Entolium) corneolum
Entolium (Entolium) corneolum Young and Bird 1828 scallop
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Goniomya (Goniomya) cf. proboscidea