Where: Coquimbo, Chile (29.3° S, 71.3° W: paleocoordinates 29.4° S, 70.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Formación Coquimbo Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• Formación Coquimbo (Mioceno Medio-Pleistoceno Inferior)
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, muddy, conglomeratic sandstone
•fluvialesde la Formación Confluencia y en parte son cubiertospor ellas y por niveles calcáreos de los depósitos litorales inactivos (PlHl1).
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. Creixell, M. Ortiz, and C. Arevalo. 2012. Geología del Área Carrizalillo-El Tofo, Regiones de Atacama y Coquimbo. [M. Rivadeneira/S. Araya]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 221848: authorized by Marcelo Rivadeneira, entered by Selene Araya on 27.08.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Chorus blainvillei snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea aff. longiuscula, "Ostrea aff. ferrarisi" = Crassostrea patagonica
Ostrea aff. longiuscula oyster
"Ostrea aff. ferrarisi" = Crassostrea patagonica d'Orbigny 1842 oyster | |
Chlamys cf. simpsoni scallop
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop
Chlamys cf. hupeanus Philippi 1887 scallop |