Where: Coquimbo, Chile (30.3° S, 71.5° W: paleocoordinates 30.9° S, 67.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Formación Coquimbo Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• Formción Coquimbo (Mioceno-Pleistoceno)
Environment/lithology: marine; silty sandstone
•b)Calizas bioclásticas matriz soportadas (bio) clastosoportadas minoritarias.
•Se intercalan areniscas bioclásticas finas a gruesas.
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. Emparan C and G. Pineda F. 2006. Geología del Área de Adacollo-Puerto Aldea, Región de Coquimbo, Carta No. 96. [M. Rivadeneira/S. Araya]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 222363: authorized by Marcelo Rivadeneira, entered by Selene Araya on 22.09.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| unclassified | |
| Thecofilosea | |
| Chrysophyceae | |
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Distephanus speculum Ehrenberg 1839 | |
| Bacillariophyceae | |
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Rhaphoneis miocenica diatom | |
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Auliscus caelatus diatom
Actinoptychus senarius Ehrenberg 1838 diatom | |
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Plagiogramma obesum diatom | |
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Navicula lyra Ehrenberg 1843 diatom | |
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Diploneis pseudobombiformis diatom
Diploneis crabro Ehrenberg 1844 diatom | |
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Actinocyclus octonarius Ehrenberg 1838 diatom
Actinocyclus ellipticus Grunow 1883 diatom | |
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Paralia coronata diatom
Paralia sulcata Ehrenberg 1838 diatom | |
| Protozoa | |
| Grammatophora | |
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Grammatophora angulosa Ehrenberg 1841 | |
| Dinophyceae | |