Where: San Juan, Argentina (30.0° S, 69.0° W: paleocoordinates 61.1° S, 112.1° W)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Talacasto Formation, Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)
• Emsian age section
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, silty shale and sandstone
Preservation: replaced with calcite
Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: T. M. Sanchez, B. G. Waisfeld, and B. A. Toro. 1995. Silurian and Devonian molluscan bivalves from precordillera region, western Argentina. Journal of Paleontology 69(5):869-885 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 3523: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 04.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Actinopteria eschwegei oyster | |
Glossites cf. depressus clam "cf. G. depressus" - originally entered as "Glossites cf. G. depressus"
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Pholadella radiata clam | |
Nuculites argentinum clam | |
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