Quebrada Noria, Atacama: Late/Upper Sinemurian, Chile

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea (Bilobissa) tricarinata
11 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya (Pholadomya) corrugata (Koch and Dunker 1837)
Aberhan 2004 2 individuals
Homomya neuquena Leanza 1942
Aberhan 2004 1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:Chile
Coordinates: 27.4° South, 69.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.8° South, 31.8° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Sinemurian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
Key time interval:Late/Upper Sinemurian
Age range of interval:199.50000 - 192.90000 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,original calcite,replaced with silica
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:mechanical,acetic,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:bivalves only
Metadata
Database number:95424
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-04-15 23:51:19 Last modified:2010-04-19 16:54:54
Access level:the public Released:2010-04-15 23:51:19
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]