Bajada del Agrio - Shell Bed G, Neuquen, Argentina (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Where: Argentina (38.0° S, 69.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° S, 33.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pilmatue Member (Bajada del Agria Formation), Early/Lower Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• Shell Bed G, Hoplitocrioceras gentilii Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, fine-grained, medium sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. G. Lazo. 2003. Taxonomy, facies relationships and palaeobiology of bakevelliid bivalves from the Lower Cretaceous of west-central Argentina . Cretaceous Research 24(6):765-788 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 44744: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 17.09.2004

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Taxonomic list

Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Steinmanella transitoria Steinmann 1881 clam
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Myoconcha transatlantica clam
Myoconcha transtlantica
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) sp." = Ceratostreon
"Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) sp." = Ceratostreon Bayle 1878 oyster
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillella aviculoides Sowerby 1814 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Mimachlamys robinaldina Orbigny 1847 scallop
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835