Where: Chile (36.6° S, 73.1° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 36.0° S, 59.1° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Baculites anceps ammonoid zone, Quiriquina Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, yellow sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: CPUC (Colección Paleontológica de la Universidad de Concepción)
Primary reference: C. Salazar, W. Stinnesbeck, and L. A. Quinzio-Sinn. 2010. Ammonites from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) Quiriquina Formation in central Chile. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 257:181-236 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 165508: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.01.2015
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Baculites anceps Lamarck 1822 ammonite |