Estero El Ganso locality, La Cueva Fm. (Pliocene of Chile)

Where: Chile (34.3° S, 71.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° S, 70.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: La Cueva Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• 3,4 Ma

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; sandstone and conglomerate

• Sandstone with rare conglomerates and even less siltstones

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: Herm collected 11 specimens, Covacevich & Frassinetti collected 12 specimens

Primary reference: S. N. Nielsen. 2013. A new Pliocene mollusk fauna from Mejillones, northern Chile. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 87(1):33-66 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 142301: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 08.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
Prisogaster niger Wood 1828 snail
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Chlorostoma atrum Lesson 1830 top snail
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
 Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva peruviana Lamarck 1811 olive snail
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassarius gayi Kiener 1835 snail
 Neogastropoda - Pseudolividae
 Neogastropoda - Thaisidae
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Acanthina unicornis Bruguiére 1789 unicorn
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
 Heterostropha - Chilinidae
Chilina sp. Gray 1828 snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae