Cerro de la Oveja, south of Puerto Natales (Eocene of Chile)

Where: Magallanes y la Antártica, Chile (52.1° S, 72.3° W: paleocoordinates 54.6° S, 62.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray, sandy limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Empresa Nacional del Petroleo, Magallanes

Primary reference: A. K. Miller and W. M. Furnish. 1955. Aturias from southern Chile. Journal of Paleontology 29:467-468 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 169243: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.05.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Aturiidae
Aturia brueggeni Ihering 1922 nautiloid