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; lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments
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 32443: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Martin Aberhan on 30.06.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Modiolus baylei mussel
Modiolus giganteus Quenstedt 1857 mussel | |
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Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Gervillaria pallas Leanza 1942 oyster | |
Pseudolimea cf. roemeri Brauns 1871 file clam
"Ctenostreon wrighti" = Ctenostreon rugosum Smith 1817 file clam | |
Weyla alata von Buch 1838 scallop | |
Mesomiltha sp. Chavan 1938 clam | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Quadratirhynchia crassimedia Buckman 1917
Gibbirhynchia curviceps Quenstedt 1852 | |
Lobothyris cf. ovatissima Quenstadt 1856 | |
Anthozoa | |
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral |