Where: Chile (29.0° S, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 29.3° S, 32.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified wackestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite, replaced with silica
Collection methods: bulk, 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 33580: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Martin Aberhan on 04.08.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Actinostreon longistriatum oyster | |
Weyla titan Moricke 1894 scallop
Weyla alata von Buch 1838 scallop | |
Chlamys textoria Schlotheim 1820 scallop | |
Pseudolimea duplicata Sowerby 1814 file clam
"Ctenostreon wrighti" = Ctenostreon rugosum Smith 1817 file clam | |
Lithophaga sp. Röding 1798 mussel | |
Gastropoda | |
"Natica" bulimoides moon snail | |
? Nerinella sp. Sharpe 1849 snail | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata
"Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata Sowerby 1812 | |
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Anthozoa | |
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral | |
Demospongiae | |
"Andenipora liasica" = Chaetetes (Pseudoseptifer) liasica
"Andenipora liasica" = Chaetetes (Pseudoseptifer) liasica Gerth 1926 demosponge |