B9-Cerro Puchenque (I), Bed 315, Mendoza: Pliensbachian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
Bivalvia
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Neitheidae
Weyla unca (Philippi 1899)
Weyla bodenbenderi (Behrendsen 1891)
recombined as Weyla (Weyla) bodenbenderi
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium ? mapuche Damborenea 2002
Damborenea 2002
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna cf. folium Young and Bird 1822
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Myophorella sp. Bayle 1878
see common names

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:315
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
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:33774
Authorizer:A. Miller, M. Aberhan Enterer:K. Layou, S. Nurnberg
Modifier:A. Khan Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-08-07 07:43:07 Last modified:2013-08-15 20:37:51
Access level:the public Released:2003-08-07 07:43:07
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]