Where: Chile (44.6° S, 74.6° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 43.8° S, 71.0° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Navidad Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Navidad Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed (in english) in text. AGE: Early-Middle Miocene in text based on macrofossil biostratigraphy. Here, tentatively assigned to Early Miocene based on more recent published age estimates. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within Navidad Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Covacevich & Frassinetti
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Presumably V. Covacevich and D. Frassinetti. R, prior to 1980. REPOSITORY: SGO.
Primary reference: V. Covacevich and D. Frassinetti. 1986. El genero Cancellaria en el Mioceno de Chile con descripcion de cuatro especies nuevas (Gaastropoda: Cancellariidae). Revista Geológica de Chile 28-29:33-67 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 78526: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 07.02.2008, edited by Damián Perez
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Glycymeris sp. Da Costa 1778 clam | |
Cucullaea chilensis Philippi 1887 clam | |
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Mactra sp. Linnaeus 1767 clam | |
Ameghinomya volckmanni Philippi 1887 venus clam
Chione sp. von Mühlfield 1811 venus clam | |
"Cardium multiradiatum" = Trachycardium multiradiatum, Cardium sp.
"Cardium multiradiatum" = Trachycardium multiradiatum Sowerby 1846 cockle
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
Panopea sp. Menard 1807 clam | |
"Nuculana (Poroleda) sp." = Poroleda
"Nuculana (Poroleda) sp." = Poroleda Hutton 1893 pointed nut clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Semicassis monilifera Sowerby 1846 snail | |
Cancellaria medinae Philippi 1887 snail | |
? Columbarium sp. von Martens 1881 snail | |
Lamprodomina dimidiata Sowerby 1846 olive snail | |
"Fusus" turbinelloides snail
"Fusus" sp. Bruguière 1789 snail | |
Pseudoliva cepa true whelk | |
"Natica" striolata Sowerby 1846 moon snail
Neverita sp. Risso 1826 moon snail
Sinum subglobosus Sowerby 1846 moon snail | |
Trochus cf. poeppigii Philippi 1887 top snail | |
Scaphander sp. Monfort 1810 snail | |
"Bulla" sp. Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
Echinoidea | |
"Schizaster" sp. Agassiz 1835 heart urchin |