B9-Cerro Puchenque (I), Beds 311-314, Mendoza: Pliensbachian, Argentina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Brachiopoda indet.
Cuvier 1805
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonoidea
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Ammonoidea indet.
Zittel 1884
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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
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Modiolus sp.
(Lamarck 1801)
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Eopecten ? hartzi
(Rosenkrantz 1957)
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Neitheidae
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Weyla alata
(von Buch 1838)
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| recombined as Weyla (Weyla) alata | ||||||||||
| W. alata alata | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Entoliidae
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Entolium (Entolium) cf. lunare
(Roemer 1839)
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Damborenea 2002 | |||||||||
| recombined as Entolium lunare | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Pinnidae
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Pinna cf. folium
Young and Bird 1822
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Parallelodontidae
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Parallelodon sp.
Meek and Worthen 1866
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Bivalvia
- Trigoniida
- Myophorellidae
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Myophorella sp.
Bayle 1878
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Anthozoa
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Anthozoa indet.
Ehrenberg 1834
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Geography
| Country: | Argentina | State/province: | Mendoza |
| Coordinates: | 35.5° South, 69.9° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.9° South, 30.0° 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: | Puchenque | ||||
| Local section: | Cerro Puchenque I | Local bed: | 311-314 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: within the Fanninoceras ammonite Zone | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | green calcareous sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | "shale" |
| Lithology description: fine light-green calcareous sandstones, very hard, within interbedded shell-beds; local intercalations of laminated sandstones and shales and also of medium to carse sandstones; the individual sequences are graded, suggesting either storm or turbiditic origin for this portion of the section | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 33771 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller, M. Aberhan | Enterer: | K. Layou, S. Nurnberg |
| Modifier: | A. Khan | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-08-07 07:36:55 | Last modified: | 2013-08-15 20:36:57 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-08-07 07:36:55 |
| 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] |