Where: Chile (33.8° S, 70.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.3° S, 33.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Micracanthoceras microcanthum - Corongoceras alternans ammonoid zone, Sandstone Member (Lo Valdés Formation), Late/Upper Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)
• early? Tithonian to Hauterivian
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; calcareous sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: C. A. Salazar Soto. 2012. The Jurassic-Cretaceous Boundary (Tithonian - Hauterivian) in the Andean Basin of Central Chile: Ammonites, Bio- and Sequence Stratigraphy and Palaeobiogeography. [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 151662: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 09.10.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Lytohoplites paredesi n. sp., Lytohoplites zambranoi n. sp., Lytohoplites varelae n. sp., Lytohoplites rauloi n. sp.
Lytohoplites paredesi n. sp. ammonite
Lytohoplites zambranoi n. sp. ammonite
Lytohoplites varelae n. sp. ammonite
Lytohoplites rauloi n. sp. ammonite | |
Micracanthoceras microcanthum Oppel 1865 ammonite
Micracanthoceras spinulosum Gerth 1925 ammonite |