Quebrada Pinte, Profil 5, Sample 4-143 (Jurassic of Chile)

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: Early/Lower Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified wackestone

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 34086: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 14.08.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
? Nanogyra cf. auricularis Munster 1833 oyster
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys textoria Schlotheim 1820 scallop
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Weyla (Weyla) titan Moricke 1894 scallop
Weyla (Weyla) bodenbenderi Behrendsen 1891 scallop
Weyla (Weyla) alata von Buch 1838 scallop
Weyla (Lywea) unca Philippi 1899 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma "sp. A" Sowerby 1814 file clam
Plagiostoma "sp. B" Sowerby 1814 file clam
Pseudolimea duplicata Sowerby 1814 file clam
"Ctenostreon wrighti" = Ctenostreon rugosum Smith 1817 file clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Lithophaga sp. Röding 1798 mussel