Where: Chile (36.6° S, 73.0° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° S, 60.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Eubaculites carinatus ammonoid zone, Quiriquina Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Beds with calcareous sandstone concretions, roughly equivalent to Kitchinites darwini subzone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: CPUC (Colección Paleontológica de la Universidad de Concepción)

Primary reference: C. Salazar, W. Stinnesbeck, and L. A. Quinzio-Sinn. 2010. Ammonites from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) Quiriquina Formation in central Chile. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 257:181-236 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165489: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.01.2015

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