Cocholgüe (locality CO, beds with concretions): Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Chile

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites anceps Lamarck 1822
Baculites huenickeni Stinnesbeck 1986
Eubaculites carinatus (Morton 1834)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Kossmaticeratidae
Kossmaticeras (Natalites) erbeni Stinnesbeck 1986
(1 measurement)
Maorites densicostatus (Kilian and Reboul 1909)
(1 measurement)
Gunnarites cf. bhavaniformis (Kilian and Reboul 1909)
Grossouvrites joharae Salazar et al. 2010
(2 measurements)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) gutierrezi Salazar et al. 2010
Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) jacquoti (Seunes 1890)
ssp. chilensis (2 measurements)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Kitchinites ifrimae n. sp. Salazar et al. 2010
(4 measurements)
Kitchinites darwini (Steinmann 1895)
(7 measurements)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Zelandites varuna (Forbes 1846)
(4 measurements)
Gaudryceras kayei (Forbes 1846)
(1 measurement)
    = Gaudryceras seymouriense Macellari 1986
Shigeta and Maeda 2023
Anagaudryceras politissimum (Kossmat 1895)
(1 measurement)
    = Anagaudryceras mikobokense Collignon 1956
Shigeta and Maeda 2023
Anagaudryceras subtilineatum (Kossmat 1895)
(2 measurements)
Pseudophyllites indra (Forbes 1846)
(1 measurement)
Cephalopoda - Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) hetonaiense (Matsumoto 1942)
(7 measurements)
Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) ramosum (Meek 1857)
(8 measurements)
Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Nautilidae
Eutrephoceras dorbignyanum (Forbes 1846)
Nielsen and Salazar 2011
(2 measurements)
see common names

Geography
Country:Chile
Coordinates: 36.6° South, 73.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.6° South, 60.9° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Late/Upper Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Quiriquina
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Beds with calcareous sandstone concretions, roughly equivalent to Kitchinites darwini subzone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: CPUC (Colección Paleontológica de la Universidad de Concepción)
Metadata
Database number:165491
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham, K. Okamoto
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-01-19 19:50:29 Last modified:2020-10-05 16:21:59
Access level:the public Released:2015-01-19 19:50:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

54096. 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]

Secondary references:

54113 S. N. Nielsen and C. Salazar. 2011. Eutrephoceras subplicatum (Steinmann, 1895) is a junior synonym of Eutrephoceras dorbignyanum (Forbes in Darwin, 1846) (Cephalopoda, Nautiloidea) from the Maastrichtian Quiriquina Formation of Chile. Cretaceous Research 32(6):833-840 [M. Clapham/K. Okamoto]
83762 Y. Shigeta and H. Maeda. 2023. Late Maastrichtian (latest Cretaceous) ammonoids from the Naiba area, southern Sakhalin, Russian Far East. Paleontological Research 27:277-309 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]