Where: Chile (28.8° S, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 29.1° S, 32.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite, replaced with silica
Collection methods: mechanical, acetic,
Primary reference: M. Aberhan. 2004. Early Jurassic Bivalvia of northern Chile. Part II. Subclass Anomalodesmata. Beringeria 34:117-154 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 58543: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 13.02.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Pholadomya (Pholadomya) fidicula Sowerby 1826 clam |