Bahía Inglesa Unit 3: Early/Lower Pliocene, Chile
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Mactridae
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Mulinia edulis
King 1831
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Argopecten purpuratus
(Lamarck 1819)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Olividae
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Oliva peruviana
Lamarck 1811
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Gastropoda
- Neotaenioglossa
- Calyptraeidae
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Trochita trochiformis
(Gmelin 1791)
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| recombined as Calyptraea (Trochita) trochiformis | |||||||
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Crepidula dilatata
Lamarck 1822
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| recombined as Crepipatella dilatata | |||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Chile |
| Coordinates: | 27.1° South, 70.5° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 27.2° South, 69.5° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Bahía Inglesa | Member: | Unit 3 |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine,medium sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | grainstone |
| Environment: | shoreface |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils,some microfossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 68781 | ||
| Authorizer: | O. Will | Enterer: | O. Will |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | ||
| Created: | 2007-02-06 17:27:46 | Last modified: | 2022-03-02 04:16:18 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-02-06 17:27:46 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 19852. | S. A. Walsh and J. P. Hume. 2001. A new Neogene marine avian assemblage from north-central Chile. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3):484-491 [O. Will/O. Will] |