ESE Cerro Cifuncho, Horizon 3 (Jurassic of Chile)

Where: Chile (25.8° S, 70.6° W: paleocoordinates 30.3° S, 32.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Cuevitensis ammonoid zone, Middle Hettangian (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified, tuffaceous, calcareous siltstone and sandstone

• Fine-laminated, calcareous, tuffaceous silt- and sandstones

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: A. Hillebrandt. 2000. Die Ammoniten-Fauna des südamerikanischen Hettangium (basaler Jura), Teil 1. Paleontographica Abteilung 257(4-6):85-189 [J. Pálfy/D. Juhász]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 209374: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Dorina Juhász on 01.05.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Psiloceratidae
Badouxia canadensis Frebold 1951 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Arietitidae
Schreinbachites sp. Bloos 1994 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Schlotheimiidae
Schlotheimia cuevitensis Hillebrandt 2000 ammonite