Loc. 2 - Guafo Island (Pliocene of Chile)

Also known as Loc. 031083

Where: Chile (43.6° S, 74.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.8° S, 73.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Unknown lithostratigraphic relationships. AGE: Late Pliocene, on the basis of index macrofossils. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within regional section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

• ENVIRONMENT: Offshore, on the basis of faunal composition.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Frassinetti & Covacevich in 1983

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: Presumably D. Frassinetti and V. Covacevich, 1983. REPOSITORY: SGO.

Primary reference: D. Frassinetti. 1997. Moluscos del Plioceno Superior marino de Isla Guafo, Sur de Chile. Part 1. Bivalvia. Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Chile 46:55-79 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79202: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.02.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for bivalvia. Gastropoda not listed. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with species and subgenus resolution assignments.
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella chilensis" = Incatella chilensis
"Turritella chilensis" = Incatella chilensis Sowerby 1846 turret shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
"Polinices (Euspira) guamblinensis" = Euspira guamblinensis
"Polinices (Euspira) guamblinensis" = Euspira guamblinensis Frassinetti and Covacevich 1995 moon snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
Sassia leucostomoides Sowerby 1846 triton shell
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
 Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
Hindsiclava ignorata Frassinetti and Covacevich 1995 snail
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Adelomelon reconditus Frassinetti 2000 volute
 Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
 Thecosomata - Cavoliniidae
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Nuculana (Propeleda) sp." = Propeleda
"Nuculana (Propeleda) sp." = Propeleda Iredale 1924 pointed nut clam
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
"Nuculana elegans" = Tindariopsis sulcata
"Nuculana elegans" = Tindariopsis sulcata Gould 1852 clam
 Lucinida - Thyasiridae
Thyasira aff. chilensis Philippi 1887 clam
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea chiloensis Philippi 1897 clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Cardiocardita volckmanni" = Cyclocardia velutinus
"Cardiocardita volckmanni" = Cyclocardia velutinus Smith 1881 clam