Las Tablas, Quiriquina Island (locality LT, beds with concretions) (Cretaceous of Chile)

Where: Chile (36.6° S, 73.1° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° S, 60.9° 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 165492: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Kitchinites darwini Steinmann 1895 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Kossmaticeratidae
Grossouvrites gemmatus Huppe 1854 ammonite
Grossouvrites joharae n. sp. Salazar et al. 2010 ammonite
Maorites densicostatus Kilian and Reboul 1909 ammonite
Gunnarites cf. bhavaniformis Kilian and Reboul 1909 ammonite
Kossmaticeras (Natalites) erbeni Stinnesbeck 1986 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) jacquoti Seunes 1890 ammonite
ssp. chilensis
Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) gutierrezi n. sp. Salazar et al. 2010 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Pseudophyllites indra Forbes 1846 ammonite
Anagaudryceras mikobokense Collignon 1956 ammonite
Zelandites varuna Forbes 1846 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Eubaculites carinatus Morton 1834 ammonite
Baculites huenickeni Stinnesbeck 1986 ammonite