Where: Argentina (43.8° S, 69.9° W: paleocoordinates 57.2° S, 81.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mojon de Hierro Formation (Tepuel Group), Bashkirian to Bashkirian (323.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• 5th fossiliferous horizon. Costatumulus amosi zone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone and lithified conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: C. R. Gonzalez. 2006. Lower Permian bivalves from central Patagonia, Argentina. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 80(2):130-155 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64622: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.09.2006, edited by Phil Novack-Gottshall

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