B8-Arroyo Serrucho, Beds1346-1347, Mendoza (Jurassic of Argentina)

Where: Mendoza, Argentina (35.4° S, 69.9° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° S, 31.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Puchenque Formation, Toarcian (182.7 - 174.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, gray mudstone and siltstone

• gray shelly mudstones with interbedded siltstones

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 33755: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 06.08.2003, edited by Sabine Nürnberg

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus gerthi n. sp. Damborenea 1987 mussel
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula sp. Lamarck 1801 scallop
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna cf. folium Young and Bird 1822 oyster
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea sp. Lamarck 1801 clam
 Pterioida - Prospondylidea
? Terquemia andina Damborenea 2002 clam
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805