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 | |
Menuites fresvillensis Seunes 1890 ammonite |