Where: Chile (35.8° S, 72.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° S, 60.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lower levels Member (Quiriquina Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Lower levels of the Quiriquina Formation, lower upper Maastrichtian.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; bioturbated sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Castillo and Pelluhue locals in 1992-1993
Primary reference: R. A. Otero, S. Soto-Acuña, A. O. Vargas and D. Rubilar-Rogers. 2014. A new postcranial skeleton of an elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of central Chile and reassessment of Cimoliasaurus andium Deecke. Cretaceous Research 50:318-331 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 157301: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 12.06.2014, edited by Philip Mannion and Franco Aspromonte
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Cardium (Bucardium) acuticostatum" = Bucardium
"Cardium (Bucardium) acuticostatum" = Bucardium cockle | |
Mactra araucana clam
Cymbophora araucana clam | |
Pacitrigonia hanetiana d'Orbigny 1842 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Osteichthyes | |
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Reptilia | |
Elasmosauridae indet., Wunyelfia maulensis n. gen. n. sp.
Elasmosauridae indet. Cope 1869 elasmosaur SGO.PV.6506. Postcranial skeleton preserving 12 posterior cervical vertebrae, 10 dorsals, and 28 caudals (with two probably missing centra), and a fragmentary pelvic girdle including part of one pubis and two ilia
Wunyelfia maulensis n. gen. n. sp. Otero and Soto-Acuña 2021 elasmosaur SGO.PV.6507. Partial postcranial skeleton
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Chondrichthyes | |
Odontaspididae indet. Müller and Henle 1839 sand tiger shark shark teeth of indeterminate odontaspidids
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Carcharias sp. Rafinesque 1810 sand shark | |
Ischyrhiza chilensis Wetzel 1930 ray |