Where: Chile (29.0° S, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 29.3° S, 32.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite, replaced with silica
Collection methods: mechanical
Primary reference: M. Aberhan. 1992. Palokologie und zeitliche Verbreitung benthischer Faunengemeinschaften im Unterjura von Chile. Beringeria 5:1-174 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 33668: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Martin Aberhan on 05.08.2003, edited by Sabine Nürnberg
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
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Bivalvia | |
Gryphaea "sp. A" Lamarck 1801 oyster | |
"Entolium corneolum" = Entolium (Entolium) corneolum
"Entolium corneolum" = Entolium (Entolium) corneolum Young and Bird 1828 scallop | |
Plagiostoma "sp. B" Sowerby 1814 file clam | |
Nuculana (Praesaccella) ovum Sowerby 1825 pointed nut clam |