Where: Chile (35.0° S, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.2° S, 33.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Banos del Flaco Formation (Mendoza Group), Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified siliciclastic sediments and lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Hallam, L. Biró-Bagóczky, and E. Perez. 1986. Facies analysis of the Lo Valdés Formation (Tithonian-Hauterivian) of the High Cordillera of Central Chile, and the palaeogeographic evolution of the Andean Basin. Geological Magazine 123(4):425-435 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 57148: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 06.12.2005

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