Bed 1-5, Cerros de Cuevitas, Salar de Navidad (Permian of Chile)

Where: Chile (23.5° S, 70.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.4° S, 49.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cerros de Cuevitas Formation, Cisuralian (298.9 - 273.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Instituto de Paleontología, Sección Paleoinvertebrados, Fundación Miguel Lillo, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina (IPI)

Primary reference: G. A. Cisterna, A. F. Sterren, and H. R. Niemeyer. 2014. Las sucesiones carbonáticas marinas del Pérmico Temprano en Antofagasta, norte de Chile. Andean Geology 41:626-638 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 163041: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.10.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Myalina aff. chilena Gonzalez 1986 clam
 Anomalodesmata -