North of Rio Rapel [Navidad Fm] (Miocene of Chile)

Where: Chile (33.9° S, 71.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° S, 66.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Navidad Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: deep-water; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

• neritic to bathyal, deep water mass influenced

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ)

Primary reference: S. N. Nielsen, D. Frassinetti, and K. Bandel. 2004. Miocene Vetigastropoda and Neritimorpha (Mollusca, Gastropoda) of central Chile. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 17:73-88 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46980: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 28.01.2005, edited by Sabine Nürnberg, Mark Uhen, Austin Hendy and Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
"Cantrainea sp." = Homalopoma (Cantrainea)
"Cantrainea sp." = Homalopoma (Cantrainea) snail
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
"Tegula (Chlorostoma) austropacifica n. sp." = Chlorostoma austropacifica, Monilea riorapelensis n. sp., Calliostoma mapucherum n. sp., Astele chilensis
"Tegula (Chlorostoma) austropacifica n. sp." = Chlorostoma austropacifica Nielsen et al. 2004 top snail
Monilea riorapelensis n. sp. top snail
Calliostoma mapucherum n. sp. top snail
Astele chilensis top snail
 Trochoidea - Tegulidae
"Tegula (Agathisoma) antiqua n. sp." = Agathistoma antiqua
"Tegula (Agathisoma) antiqua n. sp." = Agathistoma antiqua Nielsen et al. 2004 snail
 Neogastropoda - Olividae
Olivancillaria claneophila3 Duclos 1835 olive snail
 Neogastropoda - Pseudolividae
Triumphis maitenlahuensis4 Nielsen and Frassinetti 2003 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
Crassicymatium crassicordatum1 Beu 2010 triton shell
Mammalia
 Cetacea - Tranatocetidae
Plesiocetopsis sp.2 Brandt 1873 whale
 Cetacea -
Plesiocetus sp.5 Van Beneden 1859 whale