B9-Cerro Puchenque (I), Bed 332-335, Mendoza: Toarcian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
Hildaites sp.
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
Bivalvia
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
"Chlamys" textoria (Schlotheim 1820)
Damborenea 2002
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Parvamussium pumilum (Lamarck 1819)
Damborenea 2002
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium mapuche Damborenea 2002
Damborenea 2002
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Mendoza
Coordinates: 35.5° South, 69.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.7° South, 31.2° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Toarcian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 3
Key time interval:Toarcian
Age range of interval:184.20000 - 174.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Puchenque
Local section:Cerro Puchenque Local bed:332-335
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: within the D. hoelderi ammonite Zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,green calcareous sandstone
Secondary lithology:"cross stratification" sandstone
Lithology description: dark gray or greenish calcareous sandstone, very hard, with cross-bedded sandstones
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:33792
Authorizer:A. Miller, M. Aberhan Enterer:K. Layou, S. Nurnberg
Modifier:A. Khan Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-08-07 08:21:44 Last modified:2013-08-17 10:21:26
Access level:the public Released:2003-08-07 08:21:44
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]