Where: Antofagasta, Chile (24.5° S, 69.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° S, 33.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Norian to Norian (228.0 - 201.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: I. Hayami, S. Maeda, and C. R. Fuller. 1977. Some Late Triassic Bivalvia and Gastropoda from the Domeyko Range of north Chile. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 108:202-221 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 98590: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Chartronella pacifica snail | |
Planospirina sp. Kittl 1899 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Plicatula sp. Lamarck 1801 scallop | |
Antiquilima atacamensis n. sp., Pseudolimea chongi n. sp.
Antiquilima atacamensis n. sp. Hayami et al. 1977 file clam
Pseudolimea chongi n. sp. Hayami et al. 1977 file clam | |
Eopecten sp. Douvillé 1897 scallop | |
Pinna (Pinna) sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster | |
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel | |
Unionites sp. Wissman 1841 clam | |
Palaeocardita peruviana Cox 1949 clam | |
Septocardia peruviana Cox 1949 cockle | |
Isopristes sp. Nicol and Allen 1953 clam | |
Myophorigonia aff. paucicostata Jaworski 1922 clam |