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, calcareous sandstone

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 210173: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Dorina Juhász on 25.05.2020

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