Domeyko Range, GCH 85 (Triassic to of Chile)

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

• greyish impure limestone which alternate with black shales

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

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Colloniidae
 Neritoidea - Naticopsidae
Planospirina sp. Kittl 1899 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula sp. Lamarck 1801 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
Antiquilima atacamensis n. sp. Hayami et al. 1977 file clam
Pseudolimea chongi n. sp. Hayami et al. 1977 file clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Eopecten sp. Douvillé 1897 scallop
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna (Pinna) sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
 Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
Unionites sp. Wissman 1841 clam
 Cardiida - Palaeocarditidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Septocardia peruviana Cox 1949 cockle
 Carditida - Cardiniidae
Isopristes sp. Nicol and Allen 1953 clam
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae