Quebrada Pinte, Profil 5, Sample 4-139: Early/Lower Pliensbachian, Chile

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys textoria (Schlotheim 1820)
5 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Neitheidae
Weyla (Weyla) alata (von Buch 1838)
33 individuals
Weyla (Weyla) titan Moricke 1894
16 individuals
Weyla (Lywea) unca (Philippi 1899)
15 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula (Harpax) rapa (Bayle and Coquand 1851)
1 individual
original and current combination Plicatula rapa
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Ctenostreon wrighti Bayle 1878
15 individuals
synonym of Ostrea rugosa
Plagiostoma informal sp. A Sowerby 1814
2 individuals
Plagiostoma informal sp. B Sowerby 1814
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Actinostreon longistriatum
2 individuals
original and current combination Lopha (Actinostreon)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
Gervilleioperna (Gervilletia) turgida
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
? Nanogyra cf. auricularis (Munster 1833)
6 individuals
see common names

Geography
Country:Chile
Coordinates: 29.0° South, 70.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.3° South, 32.4° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Pliensbachian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 2
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pliensbachian
Age range of interval:192.90000 - 184.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Quebrada Pinte Local bed:4-139
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified wackestone
Environment:open shallow subtidal Tectonic setting:back-arc basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression,original calcite,replaced with silica
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:some
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:mechanical
Collection size:100 individuals
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:34085
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-08-14 04:19:00 Last modified:2017-07-31 19:11:30
Access level:the public Released:2003-08-14 04:19:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

487. M. Aberhan. 1992. Palokologie und zeitliche Verbreitung benthischer Faunengemeinschaften im Unterjura von Chile. Beringeria 5:1-174 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]