Quebrada Cachina, Profil 2, upper base horizon (Jurassic of Chile)

Where: Chile (25.8° S, 70.4° W: paleocoordinates 30.3° S, 32.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified limestone

• Calcareous sand-, and siltstones with limestone banks.

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 209515: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Dorina Juhász on 04.05.2020

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Psiloceratidae
Sunrisites sp. Guex 1980 ammonite