Concepción Bay (SGO.PI collection) (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)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: SGO.PI (Paleontología de Invertebrados, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago, Chile)

Primary reference: C. Salazar, W. Stinnesbeck, and D. Rubilar-Roggers. 2013. The largest Menuites fresvillensis (Seunes, 1890) (Ammonoidea, Pachydiscidae) from the Maastrichtian Quiriquina Formation, Chila. Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Chile 62:31-40 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165511: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Menuites fresvillensis Seunes 1890 ammonite