Southwest of Ancha Terriza, Rio de los Ciervos (Miocene of Chile)

Where: Chile (53.2° S, 71.0° W: paleocoordinates 54.0° S, 64.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• Age given as Eocene, but should be early Miocene. The Patagoniense transgression has been dated as early Miocene by Sr isotopes (Cuitiño et al., 2015) and U-Pb chronology (Cuitiño et al., 2012).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified sandstone

• Brachiopods mostly come from the siltstone to fine sandstone facies, likely transition zone to shoreface (Cuitiño et al., 2015).
• Units are lithified, based on field photos in Cuitiño et al. (2015).

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Princeton University

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1959. Genera of Tertiary and Recent rhynchonelloid brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 130(5):1-90 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 187484: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.07.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Hemithirididae
Patagorhynchia patagonica