Where: Chile (50.9° S, 72.4° W: paleocoordinates 53.3° S, 59.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dorotea Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• At contact between Dorotea and Rincón Negro Formations. "Rincón Negro" Formation is a name of local character equivalent to the Tres Pasos Formation. Upper Tres Pasos and lower Dorotea formations contain ammonoid Hoplitoplacenticeras, indicating a Late Campanian age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithified, blue, argillaceous siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by J. Cecioni

• Repository: Sección Paleontología del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago

Primary reference: G. Kuschel. 1959. Un curculionido del Cretácico Superior - primer insecto fósil de Chile. Investigaciones Zoológicas Chilenas 5:49-54 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155287: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.04.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)