A2-Arroyo La Laguna, Bed 428, San Juan: Pliensbachian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
Bivalvia
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
? Myophorella sp. Bayle 1878
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pseudopecten aff. equivalvis (Sowerby 1816)
Damborenea 2002
recombined as Pseudopecten (Pseudopecten) equivalvis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Neitheidae
Weyla bodenbenderi (Behrendsen 1891)
recombined as Weyla (Weyla) bodenbenderi
unclassified
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:San Juan
Coordinates: 32.3° South, 70.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.8° South, 31.1° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Pliensbachian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 2
Key time interval:Pliensbachian
Age range of interval:192.90000 - 184.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:El Cholo
Local section:Arroyo La Laguna Local bed:428
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: formation also known as Puesto Araya
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:tuffaceous calcareous sandstone
Lithology description: calcareous and tuffaceous sandstones, medium to fine-grained, thick bedded
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:33695
Authorizer:A. Miller, M. Aberhan Enterer:K. Layou, S. Nurnberg
Modifier:A. Khan Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-08-05 13:14:21 Last modified:2013-08-05 22:03:51
Access level:the public Released:2003-08-05 13:14:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

3975. S. E. Damborenea. 1987. Early Jurassic Bivalvia of Argentina: Part 1, Stratigraphical introduction and superfamilies Nuculanacea, Arcacea, Mytilacea and Pinnacea. Palaeontographica A199(1-3):23-111 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]

Secondary references:

9861 S. E. Damborenea. 2002. Early Jurassic bivalves of Argentina: Part 3, Superfamilies Monotoidea, Pectinoidea, Plicatuloidea and Dimyoidea. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 265(1-4):1-119 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]