Puesto Araya, Argentina: Early/Lower Pliensbachian, Argentina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Torpidoceras sp.
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Neitheidae
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Weyla sp.
Böhm 1920
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Bakevelliidae
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? Gervillaria pallas
(Leanza 1942)
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Pinnidae
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Pinna cf. folium
Young and Bird 1822
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Bivalvia
- Trigoniida
- Myophorellidae
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Myophorella sp.
Bayle 1878
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Stylophyllidae
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? Meandrostylis jaworskii
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9 specimens | ||||||
| spelled with current rank as Maeandrostylis | |||||||
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Phacelostylophyllum cf. peruvianum
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3 specimens | ||||||
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? Stylophyllopsis cf. victoriae
(Duncan 1867)
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Argentina | State/province: | Mendoza |
| Coordinates: | 35.1° South, 69.8° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.1° South, 30.1° West | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Jurassic |
| Stage: | Pliensbachian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 2 |
| *Period: | Early/Lower Jurassic | ||
| *International age/stage: | Early/Lower Pliensbachian - Early/Lower Pliensbachian | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pliensbachian | Zone: | Prodactylioceras davoei |
| Age range of interval: | 192.90000 - 184.20000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Upper Tragophylloceras Zone to lower Prodactylioceras davoei zone | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified calcareous sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | "shale" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Corals in lenticular bed, approximately 100 m long and 4.5 m high. | |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all microfossils,some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | 3071 | ||
| Database number: | 10700 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | W. Kiessling |
| Modifier: | W. Kiessling | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2001-06-04 12:34:10 | Last modified: | 2006-09-10 21:14:31 |
| Access level: | database members | Released: | 2001-06-04 12:34:10 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3974. | S. M. Morsch. 2001. Scleractinian corals of the Neuquen Basin (Lower Jurassic), Argentina. Bulletin of the Tohoku University Museum 1:320-332 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] |