Quebrada Dona Ines Chica (Triassic of Chile)

Also known as PGAP 2050

Where: Chile (26.1° S, 69.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.8° S, 34.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Late/Upper Triassic (237.0 - 201.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C.M. Bell and M. Suarez. 1991. Late Triassic fluvial and marine shelf succession, Quebrada Dona Ines Chica, Atacama region, northern Chile. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 4(4):287-293 [A. Rees/A. Rees]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 29509: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Allister Rees on 02.04.2003, edited by Matías González Tejos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• List from p. 291. Genus-level assignments and numbers of species are from the PGAP database. Species names are in the process of being entered.
Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria - Ichthyosauridae
Ichthyosaurus sp. Koenig 1818 ichthyosaur
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Diplospirellidae
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
Spiriferina sp. d'Orbigny 1847
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonella sp. Fischer 1809
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Terebratula sp. Müller 1776
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Arcestidae
Arcestes sp. Suess 1865 ceratite
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pectinidae indet. Wilkes 1810 scallop
 Ostreida - Cassianellidae
Cassianella sp. Beyrich 1862 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Septocardia sp. Hall 1877 cockle
Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca -
Estheria sp. Ruppell 1837 clam shrimp
Gymnospermopsida
 Corystospermales - Corystospermaceae
Dicroidium "sp. 1" Gothan 1912
 Bennettitales -