B8-Arroyo Serrucho, Beds 1324-1343, Mendoza (Jurassic of Argentina)

Where: Mendoza, Argentina (35.4° S, 69.9° W: paleocoordinates 35.8° S, 30.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Puchenque Formation, Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; graded sandstone and shale

• alternating pairs of sandstones and shales in graded sequences

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 33753: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 06.08.2003, edited by Sabine Nürnberg

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon sp. Meek and Worthen 1866 clam
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula rapa Bayle and Coquand 1851 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
"Entolium (Entolium) cf. lunare" = Entolium lunare
"Entolium (Entolium) cf. lunare" = Entolium lunare Roemer 1839 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Radulonectites sosneadoensis Weaver 1931 scallop
"Chlamys" textoria Schlotheim 1820 scallop
Eopecten ? hartzi Rosenkrantz 1957 scallop
 Pectinida - Entolioididae
Kolymonectes weaveri Damborenea 1997 scallop
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Weyla bodenbenderi Behrendsen 1891 scallop
Weyla unca Philippi 1899 scallop
 Ostreida - Malleidae
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
? Gervillaria pallas Leanza 1942 oyster
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteroperna sp. Lycett 1850 pearl oyster
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna cf. folium Young and Bird 1822 oyster
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Frenguelliella tapiai Lambert 1944 clam
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Polychaeta
 Serpulimorpha -