Also known as Formación Abundancia
Where: Copiapó, Chile (27.5° S, 70.2° W: paleocoordinates 26.7° S, 35.0° W)
When: Abundancia Formation, Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified wackestone and lithified volcaniclastic
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: C. Arévalo. 2005. Carta Copiapó, Región de Atacama, Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Carta Geológica de Chile, Serie Geología Básica, No. 91, 53 p, 1 mapa escala 1:100.000. [M. Rivadeneira/M. González Tejos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 223050: authorized by Marcelo Rivadeneira, entered by Matías González Tejos on 02.11.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Polychaeta | |
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Nautilus sp. Linnaeus 1758 nautiloid | |
Bivalvia | |
Exogyrinae indet. Vialov 1936 oyster |