Sierra Quimal, locality 1 (Triassic of Chile)

Also known as Cerro Quimal, Cerro Químal

Where: Antofagasta, Chile (23.0° S, 68.6° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° S, 33.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: El Bordo Formation, Late/Upper Triassic (237.0 - 201.3 Ma)

• middle part of beds

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: SNGM: Colección Paleontológica del Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería de Chile

Primary reference: P. Salinas, L. G. Marshall, and P. Sepúlveda. 1991. Vertebrados continentales del Paleozoico y Mesozoico de Chile [Continental vertebrates of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic of Chile]. Actas del VI Congreso Geológicao Chileno, Viña del Mar 310-313 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 170676: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.06.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia -
Chilenosuchus forttae n. gen. n. sp.
Chilenosuchus forttae n. gen. n. sp. Casamiquela 1980 aetosaur
SNGM 987 (holotype), partial skeleton