Where: Chile (29.0° S, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 31.4° S, 31.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite, replaced with silica
Collection methods: mechanical
Primary reference: M. Aberhan. 1992. Palokologie und zeitliche Verbreitung benthischer Faunengemeinschaften im Unterjura von Chile. Beringeria 5:1-174 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 32418: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Martin Aberhan on 30.06.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Lobothyris cf. ovatissima Quenstadt 1856 | |
Bivalvia | |
Modiolus baylei mussel
Modiolus giganteus Quenstedt 1857 mussel | |
Chlamys textoria Schlotheim 1820 scallop | |
Weyla alata von Buch 1838 scallop | |
Plagiostoma "sp. B" Sowerby 1814 file clam | |
"Entolium corneolum" = Entolium (Entolium) corneolum
"Entolium corneolum" = Entolium (Entolium) corneolum Young and Bird 1828 scallop | |
Aguilerella kobyi de Loriol 1901 oyster | |
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Actinostreon costatum oyster | |
? Nanogyra cf. auricularis Munster 1833 oyster | |
Protocardia "sp. A" Beyrich 1845 cockle | |
? Platymyoidea cf. longa Buvignier 1852 clam | |
Pholadomya (Pholadomya) idea d'Orbigny 1850 clam | |
Mesomiltha sp. Chavan 1938 clam | |
Cardinia andium Giebel 1861 clam | |
Trigonia "sp. A" Bruguière 1789 clam |