Also known as Quiriquina Island
Where: Chile (36.6° S, 73.1° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° S, 60.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Quiriquina Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; bioturbated, glauconitic, green, yellow sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by R. Casamiquela in 1950
Primary reference: M. E. Suárez and H. Cappetta. 2004. Sclerorhynchid teeth (Neoselachii, Sclerorhynchidae) from the Late Cretaceous of the Quiriquina Formation, central Chile. Revista Geológica de Chile 31(1):89-103 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 91416: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.09.2009, edited by Philip Mannion and Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Aristonectes sp.2 Cabrera 1941 elasmosaur SGO.PV.260 (postcranial articulated skeleton preserving 21-23 cervical vertebrae, 19-21 dorsal, 3-4 sacral, and 24-25 caudal vertebrae, four partial limbs, complete left portion of the pectoral girdle and part of the right portion, almost complete sequence of dorsal vertebral column, dorsal ribs and gastralia, and most of the pelvic girdle)
Aristonectes quiriquinensis3 Otero et al. 2014 elasmosaur SGO.PV.135 and 169 - 2 individuals (almost complete left femur and proximal portion of another left femur)
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Ischyrhiza chilensis Wetzel 1930 ray | |
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