Rio Maitenes, bed Rd (Jurassic to of Chile)

Where: Chile (35.0° S, 70.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.3° S, 33.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Banos del Flaco Formation, Middle Tithonian to Middle Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Lajos Biro in 1964

• Repository: Coleccion Paleontologica, Universidad de Concepcion

Primary reference: C. Salazar and W. Stinnesbeck. 2016. Tithonian–Berriasian ammonites from the Baños del Flaco Formation, central Chile. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 14:149-182 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175930: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.01.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Virgatosphinctes scythicus Vischniakoff 1882 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Himalayitidae
Corongoceras evolutum Corvalán 1959 ammonite
Micracanthoceras microcanthum Oppel 1865 ammonite
Aulacosphinctes proximus Steuer 1897 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Ataxioceratidae
Choicensisphinctes windhauseni Weaver 1931 ammonite