Where: Coquimbo, Chile (29.3° S, 71.3° W: paleocoordinates 29.5° S, 69.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Formación Coquimbo Formation, Late/Upper Miocene to Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• Formación Coquimbo (Mioceno Medio-Pleistoceno Inferior)
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, muddy, conglomeratic sandstone
•fluvialesde la Formación Confluenciay 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 221849: authorized by Marcelo Rivadeneira, entered by Selene Araya on 27.08.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Carcharodon carcharias Linnaeus 1758 great white shark | |
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea longiuscula oyster
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Chlamys cf. coquimbensis scallop
Chlamys cf. simpsoni scallop
Chlamys hupeanus Philippi 1887 scallop |