Bivalve assemblage, Renales section (Triassic of Spain)

Where: Spain (40.9° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 26.9° N, 4.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dolomías tableadas de Imón Formation, Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; peloidal dolomite and peloidal limestone

• supratidal or intertidal environment with anormal salinity

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, replaced with pyrite

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: A. Goy and A. Marquez-Aliaga. 1998. Bivalvos del Traisico Superior en la Formacion Imon (Cordillera Iberica, Espana). Boletin de la Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural 94(1-2):77-91 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 142083: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 04.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Malleidae
"Isognomon cf. exilis" = Isognomon (Isognomon) exilis
"Isognomon cf. exilis" = Isognomon (Isognomon) exilis Stoppani 1857 oyster
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Rhaetavicula cf. contorta Portlock 1843 pearl oyster
 Pandorida - Laternulidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia rhaetica Merian 1853 cockle
 Carditida - Myophoricardiidae
 Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
"Myophoriopis isosceles" = Nucula isosceles
"Myophoriopis isosceles" = Nucula isosceles Stoppani 1857 nut clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana cf. borsonii pointed nut clam