Quebrada El Profeta (Jurassic of Chile)

Where: Chile (25.0° S, 69.2° W: paleocoordinates 23.4° S, 34.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary, black, gray marl

• Ellipsoidal and spherical concretions occurring in a sequence of gray to black marls and thin gypsum layers interlayered with bituminous and calcareous siltstones, sandstones, and few limesotnes.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Collected by G. Arratia, H.P. Schultze, L.A. Quincio, L. Santander in 1978

• Specimens at Laboratorio de Biologia, Universidad de Chile, Santiago-Sur (LBUCH) and Division of Vertebrate Paleontology, Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas (KUVP)

Primary reference: G. Arratia. 1982. Chongichthys dentatus, new genus and species, from the Late Jurassic of Chile (Pisces: Teleostei: Chongichthyidae, new family). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 2(2):133-149 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117100: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Actinopteri
 Teleostei - Chongichthyidae
Chongichthys dentatus n. gen. n. sp.
Chongichthys dentatus n. gen. n. sp. Arratia 1982