Where: Atacama, Chile (29.1° S, 71.5° W: paleocoordinates 29.2° S, 70.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Formación Coquimbo Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• Formación Coquimbo (Mioceno Medio-Pleistoceno Inferior)
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, sandy, calcareous conglomerate
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 221938: authorized by Marcelo Rivadeneira, entered by Selene Araya on 01.09.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca | |
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778 barnacle | |
Malacostraca | |
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Gastropoda | |
Fusinus remondi snail | |
Chorus sp. Gray 1847 snail
Chorus giganteus Lesson 1830 snail | |
Crassilabrum crassilabrum Sowerby 1834 murex snail
Concholepas concholepas Bruguiére 1789 murex snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Chlamys hupeanus Philippi 1887 scallop | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Mulinia sp. Gray 1837 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
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