Where: Chile (35.0° S, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.2° S, 33.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Banos del Flaco Formation (Mendoza Group), Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified siliciclastic sediments and lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. Hallam, L. Biró-Bagóczky, and E. Perez. 1986. Facies analysis of the Lo Valdés Formation (Tithonian-Hauterivian) of the High Cordillera of Central Chile, and the palaeogeographic evolution of the Andean Basin. Geological Magazine 123(4):425-435 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 57148: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 06.12.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Steinmanella transitoria Steinmann 1881 clam | |
Eriphyla argentina Burckh and Weaver 1907 clam
? Opis sp. Defrance 1824 clam | |
Ptychomya koeneni clam | |
"Panopaea dupinian" = Panopea
"Panopaea dupinian" = Panopea clam | |
"Isocardia" koeneni clam | |
Protocardia sp. Beyrich 1845 cockle | |
Pholadomya gigantea Sowerby 1836 clam | |
Thracia aequilatera clam | |
"Lucina" leufuensis clam | |
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel
Lycettia sp. Cox 1937 mussel | |
Cucullaea gabrielis clam | |
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop
Eopecten cf. leymerii scallop | |
Plicatula sp. Lamarck 1801 scallop | |
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814 file clam
Ctenostreon neuquensis file clam | |
Isognomon cf. ricordiana oyster | |
Gervillia sp. Defrance 1820 oyster | |
"Ostrea" lotenoensis oyster
Exogyra imbricata oyster | |
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam |