Where: Tarapaca, Chile (20.8° S, 70.2° W: paleocoordinates 20.8° S, 70.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• probably Last Interglacial, 96-118 ka (Th/U and ESR dating) from a marine terrace at the same height (12 m a.s.l.) at Playa Blanca (45 km N of Caleta Patillos) (Radtke 1989)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. M. Rivadeneira and E. R. Carmona. 2008. A Late Pleistocene macrobenthic assemblage in Caleta Patillos, northern Chile: paleoecological and paleobiogeographical interpretations. Revista Geologica de Chile 35(1):163-173 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 96672: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.06.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Echinoidea | |
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cf. Tetrapygus niger Molina 1782 sea urchin | |
| Gastropoda | |
"Scurria orbignyi" = Lottia orbignyi, "Scurria ceciliana" = Patelloida ceciliana, Scurria sp., Scurria scurra
"Scurria orbignyi" = Lottia orbignyi Dall 1909 limpet
"Scurria ceciliana" = Patelloida ceciliana d'Orbigny 1841 limpet
Scurria sp. Gray 1847 limpet
Scurria scurra Lesson 1830 limpet | |
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Prisogaster niger Wood 1828 snail | |
"Tegula luctuosa" = Chlorostoma luctuosum
"Tegula luctuosa" = Chlorostoma luctuosum d'Orbigny 1841 top snail | |
Tegula tridentata, "Tegula quadricostata" = Cantallocostoma quadricostatum
Tegula tridentata Potiez and Michaud 1838 snail
"Tegula quadricostata" = Cantallocostoma quadricostatum Wood 1828 snail | |
Fissurella sp., "Fissurella pulchra" = Fissurella (Fissurella) pulchra
Fissurella sp. Bruguière 1789 snail
"Fissurella pulchra" = Fissurella (Fissurella) pulchra Sowerby 1835 snail | |
"Crepidula dilatata" = Crepipatella dilatata, "Calyptraea trochiformis" = Calyptraea (Trochita) trochiformis
"Crepidula dilatata" = Crepipatella dilatata Lamarck 1822 slipper shell
"Calyptraea trochiformis" = Calyptraea (Trochita) trochiformis Gmelin 1791 slipper shell | |
"Turritella cingulata" = Incatella cingulata
"Turritella cingulata" = Incatella cingulata Sowerby 1825 turret shell | |
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Polinices uber Valenciennes 1821 moon snail | |
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Echinolittorina peruviana Lamarck 1822 periwinkle | |
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Priene scabrum King 1832 triton shell | |
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Oliva peruviana Lamarck 1811 olive snail | |
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Crassilabrum crassilabrum Sowerby 1834 murex snail
Concholepas concholepas Bruguiére 1789 murex snail | |
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Nassarius gayi Kiener 1835 snail | |
"Mitrella unifasciata" = Alia unifasciata
"Mitrella unifasciata" = Alia unifasciata Sowerby 1832 dovesnail | |
| Polyplacophora | |
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Chiton sp. Linnaeus 1758 chiton
Enoplochiton niger Barnes 1824 chiton | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Nuculana cuneata Sowerby 1833 pointed nut clam | |
Choromytilus chorus, "Aulacomya ater" = Aulacomya atra
Choromytilus chorus Molina 1782 mussel
"Aulacomya ater" = Aulacomya atra Molina 1782 mussel | |
"Glycymeris ovatus" = Glycymeris ovata
"Glycymeris ovatus" = Glycymeris ovata Stanton 1895 clam | |
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Veneridae indet. Rafinesque 1815 venus clam
"Venus antiqua" = Ameghinomya antiqua King 1832 venus clam
"Protothaca thaca" = Leukoma thaca Molina 1782 venus clam | |
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Mulinia edulis King 1831 clam | |
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Mesodesma donacium Lamarck 1818 clam | |
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Tagelus dombeii Lamarck 1818 clam | |
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Semele solida Gray 1828 clam | |
| Thecostraca | |
"Balanus cf. flosculus" = Notobalanus flosculus, Austromegabalanus psittacus
"Balanus cf. flosculus" = Notobalanus flosculus Darwin 1853 barnacle
Austromegabalanus psittacus barnacle | |
| Malacostraca | |
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Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802 decapod | |