Las Tablas, Quiriquina Island (locality LT, coquina beds): Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Chile

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Kossmaticeratidae
Grossouvrites joharae Salazar et al. 2010
Grossouvrites gemmatus (Huppe 1854)
Maorites densicostatus (Kilian and Reboul 1909)
Gunnarites cf. bhavaniformis (Kilian and Reboul 1909)
Kossmaticeras (Natalites) erbeni Stinnesbeck 1986
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) jacquoti (Seunes 1890)
ssp. chilensis
Menuites fresvillensis (Seunes 1890)
(3 measurements)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Anagaudryceras politissimum (Kossmat 1895)
    = Anagaudryceras mikobokense Collignon 1956
Shigeta and Maeda 2023
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites anceps Lamarck 1822
Eubaculites carinatus (Morton 1834)
Cephalopoda - Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) inflatum (Stinnesbeck 1986)
see common names

Geography
Country:Chile
Coordinates: 36.6° South, 73.1° 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 Ammonoid zone: Eubaculites carinatus
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Quiriquina
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Coquina layers, glauconitic green sandstone; Menuites fresvillensis subzone.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic 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:165499
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-01-19 21:08:10 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2015-01-19 21:08:10
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:

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]