B5-Arroyo del Portezuelo Ancho, Bed 1289, Mendoza (Jurassic of Argentina)

Where: Mendoza, Argentina (35.1° S, 70.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° S, 30.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; tuffaceous sandstone

• medium to coarse grained tuffaceous sandstones that bear diverse invertebrate faunas and plant detritus at the base of fining-upwards 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 33740: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 06.08.2003

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Coeloceratidae
? Apoderoceras sp.
? Apoderoceras sp. Buckman 1921 ammonite
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Weyla unca, Weyla alata
Weyla unca Philippi 1899 scallop
Weyla alata von Buch 1838 scallop
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet.
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
? Montlivaltia sp.
? Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral