Where: Coquimbo, Chile (30.0° S, 71.3° W: paleocoordinates 30.1° S, 71.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Formación Coquimbo Formation, Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• Formación Coquimbo (Mioceno-Pleistoceno)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, sandy sandstone
•b) Calizas bioclásticas matriz soportadas y (bio) clastosoportadas minoritarias. Se intercalan areniscas bioclásticas finas a gruesas.
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. Emparan C and G. Pineda F. 2006. Geología del Área de Adacollo-Puerto Aldea, Región de Coquimbo, Carta No. 96. [M. Rivadeneira/S. Araya]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 222333: authorized by Marcelo Rivadeneira, entered by Selene Araya on 20.09.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Gastropoda | |
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Incatella cingulata Sowerby 1825 turret shell | |
Crepipatella dilatata, "Trochita trochiformis" = Calyptraea (Trochita) trochiformis
Crepipatella dilatata Lamarck 1822 slipper shell
"Trochita trochiformis" = Calyptraea (Trochita) trochiformis Gmelin 1791 slipper shell | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Perumytilus purpuratus Lamarck 1819 mussel | |
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Cryptomya californica Conrad 1837 softshell clam | |
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Tagelus dombeii Lamarck 1818 clam | |
"Venus antiqua" = Ameghinomya antiqua, "Transennella pannosa" = Transennella puella
"Venus antiqua" = Ameghinomya antiqua King 1832 venus clam
"Transennella pannosa" = Transennella puella Reeve 1863 venus clam | |
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Mesodesma donacium Lamarck 1818 clam | |