El Tabaco (Triassic of Chile)

Also known as Rio del Transito

Where: Atacama, Chile (28.8° S, 70.4° W: paleocoordinates 46.5° S, 42.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• "auf Grund von Ammoniten ins obere Anis [due to ammonites, placed in upper Anisian]" (Barthel 1958)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Dr. W. Zeil in 1956

Primary reference: K. W. Barthel. 1958. Eine marine Faunula aus der mittleren Trias von Chile [A marine fauna from the Middle Triassic of Chile]. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 106(3):352-382 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 200772: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 17.04.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
"Spiriferina" sp. d'Orbigny 1847
Fundpunkt III
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
"Rhynchonella" sp. Fischer 1809
Fundpunkt III
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculopsis (Palaeonucula) subobliqua d'Orbigny 1849 nut clam
Fundpunkt III
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
"cf. Gervilleia sp." = Gervillia
"cf. Gervilleia sp." = Gervillia Defrance 1820 oyster
Fundpunkt I
 Ostreida - Posidoniidae
cf. Posidonia sp. Bronn 1828 oyster
Fundpunkt III
 Ostreida - Halobiidae
Daonella sp. Mojsisovics 1874 oyster
Fundpunkt II
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima aff. costata Münster 1836 file clam
Fundpunkt III
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon esinense clam
Fundpunkt III
Parallelodon bittneri Barthel 1958 clam
Fundpunkt III
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigonia tabacoensis n. sp. Barthel 1958 clam
1956 XV 40 (holotype), stored in the Bavarian state collection of palaeontology and historical geology, Munich; Fundpunkt I
 Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
"Myophoria aff. ovata" = Neoschizodus ovatus
"Myophoria aff. ovata" = Neoschizodus ovatus Goldfuss 1838 clam
Fundpunkt III
Gastropoda
 Pseudomelanoidea - Pseudomelaniidae
"cf. Bourgetia sp." = Bourguetia
"cf. Bourgetia sp." = Bourguetia Deshayes 1871 snail
Fundpunkt III
 Seguenzioidea - Eucyclidae
cf. Eucyclus sp. Eudes-Deslongchamps 1860 snail
Fundpunkt III
 Ptychomphaloidea - Ptychomphalidae
Ptychomphalus sp. Agassiz 1839 snail
Fundpunkt III
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Balatonitidae
Cuccoceras aff. cuccense Mojsisovics 1873 ceratite
Fundpunkt III
 Ceratitida - Ceratitidae
Beyrichites sp. Waagen 1895 ceratite
Fundpunkt III
 Ceratitida -
Ceratitina indet. Hyatt 1884 ceratite
Fundpunkt III