Where: Chile (26.1° S, 70.4° W: paleocoordinates 28.7° S, 32.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Semicostatum ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)
• The profile is approximately 850m long and the marine lower Jurassic beds are ca. 240 m thick
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, sandy limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Primary reference: L.A. Quinzio-Sinn. 1987. Stratigraphische Untersuchungen im Unterjura des Südteils der Provinz Antofagasta in Nord-Chile. Berliner geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen 87:1-105 [J. Pálfy/D. Juhász]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 210171: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Dorina Juhász on 25.05.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Bathrotomaria sp. Cox 1956 snail
Pleurotomaria sp. Defrance 1826 snail | |
Amberleya sp. Morris and Lycett 1851 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Angulaticeras ventricosum ammonite | |
Arnioceras semicostatum, Arnioceras cf. robustum, Arnioceras cf. mendax, Arnioceras cf. miserabile, Arnioceras ceratitoides
Arnioceras semicostatum Young and Bird 1828 ammonite
Arnioceras cf. robustum Quenstedt 1884 ammonite
Arnioceras cf. mendax Fucini 1902 ammonite
Arnioceras cf. miserabile Quendstedt 1858 ammonite
Arnioceras ceratitoides Quenstedt 1848 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop | |
Weyla sp. Böhm 1920 scallop | |
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Pachymya (Arcomya) sp. Sowerby 1826 clam | |
Anthozoa | |
Montlivaltia spp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral |