Quebrada Pinte, Profil 6, Sample 1-115 (Jurassic of Chile)

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
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus giganteus Quenstedt 1857 mussel
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra "sp. A" Say 1820 oyster
sp. A
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillaria pallas Leanza 1942 oyster
 Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814 file clam
sp. B
Pseudolimea cf. roemeri Brauns 1871 file clam
"Ctenostreon wrighti" = Ctenostreon rugosum Smith 1817 file clam
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Weyla alata von Buch 1838 scallop
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Mesomiltha sp. Chavan 1938 clam
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Anisocardia "sp. A" Munier-Chalmas 1863 clam
sp. A
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
 Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral