Río del Toro, Atacama: Early/Lower Pliensbachian, Chile

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys (Chlamys) textoria (Schlotheim 1820)
1 individual
recombined as Chlamys textoria
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Neitheidae
Weyla (Lywea) aff. unca (Philippi 1899)
2 individuals
Weyla (Weyla) alata (von Buch 1838)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Actinostreon longistriatum
1 individual
original and current combination Lopha (Actinostreon)
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Homomya neuquena Leanza 1942
Aberhan 2004 1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:Chile
Coordinates: 28.5° South, 70.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:28.8° South, 32.2° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Pliensbachian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 2
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pliensbachian
Age range of interval:192.90000 - 184.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:open shallow subtidal Tectonic setting:back-arc basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:bivalves only
Metadata
Database number:95398
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-04-15 04:13:17 Last modified:2010-04-19 16:59:20
Access level:the public Released:2010-04-15 04:13:17
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

32459. M. Aberhan. 1994. Early Jurassic Bivalvia of northern Chile. Part I. Subclasses Palaeotaxodonta, Pteriomorphia, and Isofilibranchia. Beringeria 13:3-115 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]

Secondary references:

32394 M. Aberhan. 2004. Early Jurassic Bivalvia of northern Chile. Part II. Subclass Anomalodesmata. Beringeria 34:117-154 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]